Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 28
As soon as these two appeared in front of the merchant's window they were recognised by the merchant's wife, and at once reported to the king.
Who acts: two, wife · What happens: appear, recognise, report · To what, where: front, City
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 (two, wife), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 appeared | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 appeared | mark |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 two | det |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 appeared | nsubj |
| 6 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 front | case |
| 8 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 appeared | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 window | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 merchant | det |
| 11 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 window | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 merchant | case |
| 13 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 front | nmod |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 recognised | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 recognised | aux:pass |
| 16 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 window | acl:relcl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 wife | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 merchant | det |
| 19 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wife | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 merchant | case |
| 21 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 recognised | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 reported | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 reported | cc |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 once | case |
| 25 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 26 reported | obl |
| 26 | reported | report | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 appeared | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 king | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 king | det |
| 29 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 reported | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | this two | front of the merchant's window | soon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Location | |||
| 2 | recognise | past · passive | the merchant's wife | City | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | report | participle | this two not said here | to the king | vn subordinate-95.2.1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to king=Co-Agent |
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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