Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 60
The prince showed her that there was no real cause for fear, and said that he felt he ought to return to his friend at night, because he had left his home and country and risked his life for him; and, moreover, if it had not been for his friend's help he would never have met with her.
Who acts: prince, real cause, friend · What happens: show, be, say, feel, return, leave · To what, where: Gulizar, home, life, cause · 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 (prince, real cause, friend), 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 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 showed | nsubj |
| 3 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 showed | iobj |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 was | mark |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 was | expl |
| 7 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 showed | ccomp |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 cause | det |
| 9 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cause | amod |
| 10 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 was | nsubj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 fear | case |
| 12 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cause | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 showed | conj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 felt | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 felt | nsubj |
| 18 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | ccomp |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 return | nsubj |
| 20 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 return | aux |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 return | mark |
| 22 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 felt | ccomp |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 friend | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 friend | nmod:poss |
| 25 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 return | obl |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 night | case |
| 27 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 return | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 left | punct |
| 29 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 32 left | mark |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 left | nsubj |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 left | aux |
| 32 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 return | advcl |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 home | nmod:poss |
| 34 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 left | obj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 country | cc |
| 36 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 home | conj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 risked | cc |
| 38 | risked | risk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 left | conj |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 life | nmod:poss |
| 40 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 risked | obj |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 him | case |
| 42 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 risked | obl |
| 43 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 62 met | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 62 met | cc |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 and | punct |
| 46 | moreover | moreover | ADV | _ | 62 met | advmod |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 moreover | punct |
| 48 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 62 met | mark |
| 49 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 62 met | nsubj |
| 50 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 62 met | aux |
| 51 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 62 met | advmod |
| 52 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 62 met | aux:pass |
| 53 | for | for | ADP | _ | 57 help | case |
| 54 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 55 friend | nmod:poss |
| 55 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 help | nmod:poss |
| 56 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 55 friend | case |
| 57 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 62 met | obl |
| 58 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 62 met | nsubj |
| 59 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 62 met | aux |
| 60 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 62 met | advmod |
| 61 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 62 met | aux |
| 62 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 showed | conj |
| 63 | with | with | ADP | _ | 64 her | case |
| 64 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 62 met | obl |
| 65 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past | the prince | Gulizar | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | be | past | no real cause for fear | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the prince not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | feel | past | prince | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | return | ought | prince | night | to prince's friend result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to friend=Result | |||
| 6 | leave | past · perfect | prince | prince's home and country | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme | ||||
| 7 | risk | past | prince not said here | prince's life | for prince | vn risk-94-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Pivot | |||
| 8 | not meet a condition, not said to happen | would · past · perfect · passive | cause | for prince's friend's help; with Gulizar; moreover property | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Theme with she=Instrument | ||||
| 9 | help | prince's friend | nom help «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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