Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 142
The vizier's son pretended to be utterly ignorant of the place and people. "
Who acts: son · What happens: pretend, be · To what, where: ignorant
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 vizier | det |
| 2 | vizier | vizier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 vizier | case |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pretended | nsubj |
| 5 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 ignorant | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 ignorant | cop |
| 8 | utterly | utterly | ADV | _ | 9 ignorant | advmod |
| 9 | ignorant | ignorant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pretended | ccomp |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 place | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 place | det |
| 12 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ignorant | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 people | cc |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 place | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pretended | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 pretended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | past | the vizier's son | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | the vizier's son not said here | ignorant | of the place and people; utterly property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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