Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 150
On the mention of the name Ivory City the prince gave a deep sigh.
Who acts: prince · What happens: give, mention · To what, where: deep sigh, mention, name
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 (prince), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 mention | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mention | det |
| 3 | mention | mention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 name | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 name | det |
| 6 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mention | nmod |
| 7 | Ivory | Ivory | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 City | compound |
| 8 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 name | appos |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 prince | det |
| 10 | prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | nsubj |
| 11 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 sigh | det |
| 13 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sigh | amod |
| 14 | sigh | sigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the prince | a deep sigh | the mention of the name | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent sigh=Theme on mention=Asset | |||
| 2 | mention | the name | nom mention «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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