Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 16
On seeing her mother the girl pretended to be very angry. "
Who acts: girl · What happens: see, pretend, be · To what, where: mother
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 (girl), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 seeing | mark |
| 2 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 pretended | advcl |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 mother | nmod:poss |
| 4 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 seeing | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pretended | nsubj |
| 7 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 angry | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 angry | cop |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 angry | advmod |
| 11 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pretended | advcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 pretended | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 pretended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | the girl not said here | princess's mother | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mother=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | pretend | past | the girl | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | the girl not said here | angry property | tree rules |
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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