Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 76
The vizier's son saw that the prince had nothing to do with the sending of the pilaw, and therefore told him everything.
Who acts: son, prince · What happens: see, have, do, send, tell · To what, where: nothing, everything, prince · 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 (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 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 had | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prince | det |
| 8 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | ccomp |
| 10 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 had | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 do | mark |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 nothing | acl |
| 13 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 15 sending | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sending | det |
| 15 | sending | send | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 do | advcl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 pilaw | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 pilaw | det |
| 18 | pilaw | pilaw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sending | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 told | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 told | cc |
| 21 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 22 told | advmod |
| 22 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 told | iobj |
| 24 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 22 told | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the vizier's son | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | have | past | the prince | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | the prince not said here | nothing not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | send | gerund | the prince not said here | of the pilaw | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent of pilaw=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | past | the vizier's son not said here | everything | prince | therefore property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient everything=Topic |
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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