Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 106
The prince waited and waited, till at last the goldsmith returned, and with him the kotwal, who at once took the prince into custody on the charge of stealing the princess's necklace.
Who acts: prince, last goldsmith, kotwal, charge · What happens: wait, return, take, steal · To what, where: kotwal, prince, custody, necklace
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 (prince, last goldsmith, kotwal, charge), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waited | nsubj |
| 3 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 waited | cc |
| 5 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 waited | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 returned | punct |
| 7 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 12 returned | mark |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 last | case |
| 9 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 goldsmith | amod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 goldsmith | det |
| 11 | goldsmith | goldsmith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 returned | nsubj |
| 12 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 waited | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 kotwal | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 kotwal | cc |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 kotwal | nmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 kotwal | det |
| 18 | kotwal | kotwal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waited | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 took | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 took | nsubj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 once | case |
| 22 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 23 took | obl |
| 23 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 kotwal | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 prince | det |
| 25 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 took | obj |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 custody | case |
| 27 | custody | custody | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 took | obl |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 charge | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 charge | det |
| 30 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 took | obl |
| 31 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 32 stealing | mark |
| 32 | stealing | steal | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 charge | acl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 princess | det |
| 34 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 necklace | nmod:poss |
| 35 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 34 princess | case |
| 36 | necklace | necklace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 stealing | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | the prince | the kotwal with goldsmith | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wait | past | the prince not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | return | past | the last goldsmith | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | take | past | the kotwal with goldsmith | the prince | custody | on the charge | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent prince=Theme into custody=Destination | ||
| 5 | steal | gerund | the charge not said here | the princess's necklace | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location necklace=Theme |
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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