Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 27
"Alas! alas!" said the prince, who had eagerly listened to every word. "
Who acts: alas · What happens: say, listen · To what, where: prince · 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 (alas), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 4 alas | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Alas | punct |
| 4 | alas | ala | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 alas | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 alas | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 prince | det |
| 9 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 listened | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 listened | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 listened | aux |
| 13 | eagerly | eagerly | ADV | _ | 14 listened | advmod |
| 14 | listened | listen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 prince | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 word | case |
| 16 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 word | det |
| 17 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 listened | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | alas | the prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prince=Topic | ||||
| 2 | listen | past · perfect · passive | the prince | to every word; eagerly 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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