Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 74
"Alas! alas!" he cried, and lifting up the prince, he poured some water over his head and face. "
Who acts: alas, Prince · What happens: cry, lift up, pour · To what, where: prince, water, head
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 (alas, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 alas | punct |
| 2 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 4 alas | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Alas | punct |
| 4 | alas | ala | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 alas | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 alas | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 cried | nsubj |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lifting | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 lifting | cc |
| 11 | lifting | lift | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 cried | advcl |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 lifting | compound:prt |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 prince | det |
| 14 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lifting | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 poured | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 poured | nsubj |
| 17 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 cried | parataxis |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 water | det |
| 19 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 poured | obj |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 head | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 head | nmod:poss |
| 22 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 poured | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 face | cc |
| 24 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 head | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | alas | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | lift up | gerund | alas not said here | the prince | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pour | past | Prince | some water | Prince's head and face | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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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