Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 34
The next time the old woman went to the palace Gulizar called one of her servants and ordered her to rush into the room while she was conversing with the old woman; and if the old woman asked what was the matter, she was to say that the king's elephants had gone mad, and were rushing about the city and bazaar in every direction, and destroying everything in their way.
Who acts: old woman, Gulizar, woman, matter, elephants · What happens: go, call, order, rush, converse, ask · To what, where: palace, woman, room, everything, way · 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 (old woman, Gulizar, woman, matter), 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 | 3 time | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 time | amod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 woman | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 woman | amod |
| 6 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 palace | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 palace | det |
| 10 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 11 | Gulizar | Gulizar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 called | nsubj |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 palace | acl:relcl |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 called | xcomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 servants | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 servants | nmod:poss |
| 16 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 one | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 ordered | cc |
| 18 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 ordered | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 rush | mark |
| 21 | rush | rush | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 ordered | xcomp |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 room | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 room | det |
| 24 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rush | obl |
| 25 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 28 conversing | mark |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 conversing | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 conversing | aux |
| 28 | conversing | converse | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 rush | advcl |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 woman | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 woman | det |
| 31 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 woman | amod |
| 32 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 conversing | obl |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 asked | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 asked | cc |
| 35 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 39 asked | mark |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 woman | det |
| 37 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 woman | amod |
| 38 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 asked | nsubj |
| 39 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | parataxis |
| 40 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 39 asked | ccomp |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 what | cop |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 matter | det |
| 43 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 what | nsubj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 say | punct |
| 45 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 say | nsubj |
| 46 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 say | cop |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 say | mark |
| 48 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 asked | conj |
| 49 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 55 gone | mark |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 king | det |
| 51 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 elephants | nmod:poss |
| 52 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 51 king | case |
| 53 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 55 gone | nsubj |
| 54 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 55 gone | aux |
| 55 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 48 say | ccomp |
| 56 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 gone | xcomp |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 60 rushing | punct |
| 58 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 60 rushing | cc |
| 59 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 60 rushing | aux |
| 60 | rushing | rush | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 went | advcl |
| 61 | about | about | ADP | _ | 63 city | case |
| 62 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 63 city | det |
| 63 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 60 rushing | obl |
| 64 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 65 bazaar | cc |
| 65 | bazaar | bazaar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 63 city | conj |
| 66 | in | in | ADP | _ | 68 direction | case |
| 67 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 68 direction | det |
| 68 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 65 bazaar | nmod |
| 69 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 71 destroying | punct |
| 70 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 71 destroying | cc |
| 71 | destroying | destroy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 60 rushing | conj |
| 72 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 71 destroying | obj |
| 73 | in | in | ADP | _ | 75 way | case |
| 74 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 75 way | nmod:poss |
| 75 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 71 destroying | obl |
| 76 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the old woman | the palace | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | call | past | Gulizar | the palace not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent palace=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | order | past | the old woman not said here | woman | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | rush not said to happen | to-infinitive | the old woman not said here | into the room result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into room=Result | ||||
| 5 | converse speech: other | past · progressive | woman | with the old woman | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with woman=Co-Agent | ||||
| 6 | ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen | past | the old woman | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is a | past | the matter | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | be speech: assert | past | woman | say property | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | go | past · perfect | the king's elephants | mad property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 10 | rush | past · progressive | the old woman not said here | about the city and bazaar in every direction | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about city=Trajectory | ||||
| 11 | destroy | gerund | the old woman not said here | everything | elephants's way | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient |
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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