Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 36
"I shot an arrow at a bird that was sitting on the sill of an open window in yonder house, and missed," answered the prince. "
Who acts: prince, bird · What happens: shoot, sit, miss, answer · To what, where: arrow, sill · Speech: someone speaks here
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, bird), 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 | _ | 3 shot | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 shot | nsubj |
| 3 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 arrow | det |
| 5 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shot | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 bird | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bird | det |
| 8 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arrow | nmod |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 sitting | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sitting | aux |
| 11 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 bird | acl:relcl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 sill | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sill | det |
| 14 | sill | sill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sitting | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 window | case |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 window | det |
| 17 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 window | amod |
| 18 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sill | nmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 house | case |
| 20 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 21 house | advmod |
| 21 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 window | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 missed | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 missed | cc |
| 24 | missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shot | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 missed | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 shot | punct |
| 27 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shot | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 prince | det |
| 29 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 answered | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shot | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 shot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoot in a quote | past | the prince = prince | a arrow | at a bird | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme at bird=Destination | |||
| 2 | sit in a quote | past · progressive | a bird | the sill of a open window in house | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on sill=Location | ||||
| 3 | miss in a quote | past | the prince = prince not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | answer speech: assert | past | the prince | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=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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