Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 73
On the return of the prince that evening the vizier's son was very reticent and depressed.
Who acts: prince · What happens: be, return · To what, where: return
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), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 return | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 return | det |
| 3 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reticent | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 prince | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 prince | det |
| 6 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 return | nmod |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 evening | det |
| 8 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 return | nmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 vizier | det |
| 10 | vizier | vizier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 son | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 vizier | case |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 return | nmod |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 reticent | cop |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 reticent | advmod |
| 15 | reticent | reticent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 depressed | cc |
| 17 | depressed | depressed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 reticent | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 reticent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the return of the prince that evening the vizier's son | reticent property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 3 | return | the prince | nom return «communication intransitive»: of=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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