Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 100
"It is well," said the vizier's son, when he heard of this proclamation. "
Who acts: proclamation, son · What happens: be, say, hear · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (proclamation, son), 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 well | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 well | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 well | cop |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 said | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 well | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 well | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 vizier | det |
| 9 | vizier | vizier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 son | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 vizier | case |
| 11 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 heard | punct |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 heard | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 heard | nsubj |
| 15 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | parataxis |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 proclamation | case |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 proclamation | det |
| 18 | proclamation | proclamation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 heard | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 heard | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | proclamation | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the vizier's son | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hear | past | son | of this proclamation | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of proclamation=Stimulus |
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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