Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 51
In a moment they were there, and there too was the object of their search standing by one of the palace gates, and longing to see the prince quite as much as he was longing to see her.
Who acts: things, object, search, prince · What happens: be, stand, long, see, search · To what, where: prince, object
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 (things, object, search, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 there | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 there | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 there | cop |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 was | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 was | cc |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 was | expl |
| 10 | too | too | ADV | _ | 11 was | advmod |
| 11 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 there | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 object | det |
| 13 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 was | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 search | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 search | nmod:poss |
| 16 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 object | nmod |
| 17 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 search | acl |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 one | case |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 standing | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 gates | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 gates | det |
| 22 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gates | compound |
| 23 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 one | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 longing | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 longing | cc |
| 26 | longing | long | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 standing | conj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 see | mark |
| 28 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 longing | xcomp |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 prince | det |
| 30 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 see | obj |
| 31 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 33 much | advmod |
| 32 | as | as | ADV | _ | 33 much | advmod |
| 33 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 see | obj |
| 34 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 37 longing | mark |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 longing | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 longing | aux |
| 37 | longing | long | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 much | advcl |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 see | mark |
| 39 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 longing | xcomp |
| 40 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 see | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | things = thing | moment | there property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | past | the object of things's search | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stand | gerund | things's search not said here | by one of the palace gates | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by one=Location | ||||
| 4 | long | gerund | things's search not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | things's search not said here | the prince | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | long | past · progressive | prince | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | prince not said here | object | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | search | things = thing | nom search «act transitive»: poss=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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