Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 65
Fortunately he looked into his hand before drinking, and there, to his great astonishment, he saw reflected whole and clear the image of a beautiful fairy.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: look, drink, see, reflect, clear, astonish · To what, where: image, beautiful fairy
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 | Fortunately | fortunately | ADV | _ | 3 looked | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 hand | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hand | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 7 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 8 drinking | mark |
| 8 | drinking | drink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 looked | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 there | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 there | cc |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 drinking | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 astonishment | punct |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 astonishment | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 astonishment | nmod:poss |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 astonishment | amod |
| 16 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drinking | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 saw | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 saw | nsubj |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | parataxis |
| 20 | reflected | reflect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 saw | xcomp |
| 21 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 reflected | xcomp |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 clear | cc |
| 23 | clear | clear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 saw | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 image | det |
| 25 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 clear | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 fairy | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 fairy | det |
| 28 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 fairy | amod |
| 29 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 image | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Prince | into Prince's hand; fortunately property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into hand=Theme | ||||
| 2 | drink | gerund | Prince not said here | there | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | see | past | Prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | reflect | participle | Prince not said here | whole property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | clear | infinitive | Prince not said here | the image of a beautiful fairy | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent image=Source | ||||
| 6 | astonish | Prince | nom astonishment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | image | a beautiful fairy | nom image «cognition 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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