Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 25
After this the old woman went and repeated almost the same words to the princess, on the hearing of which the princess beat her severely; and threatened her with a severer punishment if she ever again spoke of the strangers before her.
Who acts: princess · What happens: go, repeat, beat, threaten, speak · To what, where: hearing, woman · 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 (princess), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 5 woman | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 woman | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 woman | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 woman | amod |
| 5 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 words | cc |
| 8 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 words | amod |
| 9 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 12 words | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 words | det |
| 11 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 words | amod |
| 12 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 went | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 princess | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 princess | det |
| 15 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 words | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hearing | punct |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 hearing | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 hearing | det |
| 19 | hearing | hearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 beat | obl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 princess | det |
| 23 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 beat | nsubj |
| 24 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 hearing | acl:relcl |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 beat | obj |
| 26 | severely | severely | ADV | _ | 24 beat | advmod |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 threatened | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 threatened | cc |
| 29 | threatened | threaten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 threatened | obj |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 punishment | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 punishment | det |
| 33 | severer | severe | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 34 punishment | amod |
| 34 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 threatened | obl |
| 35 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 39 spoke | mark |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 spoke | nsubj |
| 37 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 38 again | advmod |
| 38 | again | again | ADV | _ | 39 spoke | advmod |
| 39 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 threatened | advcl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 strangers | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 strangers | det |
| 42 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 spoke | obl |
| 43 | before | before | ADP | _ | 44 her | case |
| 44 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 spoke | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the hearing | after the old woman | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on hearing=Location | ||||
| 2 | repeat | participle | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | beat | past | the princess | woman | of the hearing; severely property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location she=Theme | |||
| 4 | threaten | past | woman | with a severer punishment | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | speak speech: other a condition, not said to happen | past | princess | before woman; again | of the strangers | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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