Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 152
"Is there a king of this country?" continued the vizier's son.
Who acts: king · What happens: be, continue · To what, where: king, son
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 (king), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 king | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 king | cop |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 Is | expl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 continued | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 country | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 country | det |
| 8 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 king | nmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 king | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 king | punct |
| 11 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 vizier | det |
| 13 | vizier | vizier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 son | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 vizier | case |
| 15 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 continued | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | a king | of this country | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | continue | past | a king | the vizier's son | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent son=Theme |
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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