Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 92
"I have looked upon a fairy," the prince said. "
Who acts: prince · What happens: look, say · 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), 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 looked | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 looked | aux |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 said | ccomp |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 fairy | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fairy | det |
| 7 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 prince | det |
| 11 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | present · perfect | the prince = prince | upon a fairy | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon fairy=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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