Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 3
The vizier's son interrupted the old woman by turning to look at the prince, who was staring like a madman. "
Who acts: son, prince · What happens: interrupt, turn, look, stare · To what, where: old woman
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 (son, prince), 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 vizier | det |
| 2 | vizier | vizier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 vizier | case |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 interrupted | nsubj |
| 5 | interrupted | interrupt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 woman | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 woman | amod |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 interrupted | obj |
| 9 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 10 turning | mark |
| 10 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 interrupted | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 look | mark |
| 12 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 turning | advcl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 prince | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 prince | det |
| 15 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 look | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 staring | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 staring | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 staring | aux |
| 19 | staring | stare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 prince | acl |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 madman | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 madman | det |
| 22 | madman | madman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 staring | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 interrupted | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 interrupted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | interrupt | past | the vizier's son | the old woman | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | turn | gerund | the vizier's son not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | the vizier's son not said here | at the prince | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at prince=Theme | ||||
| 4 | stare | past · progressive | the prince | like a madman | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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