Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 25
Then Star turned to Sun and spoke thus, "Because you went out to amuse yourself with your friends, and feasted and enjoyed yourself, without any thought of your mother at home--you shall be cursed.
Who acts: Star, you · What happens: turn, speak, go out, amuse, feast, enjoy · To what, where: Sun, yourself, you, mother · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Star, you), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 turned | advmod |
| 2 | Star | Star | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Sun | case |
| 5 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 spoke | cc |
| 7 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 8 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 7 spoke | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 11 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 went | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 amuse | mark |
| 16 | amuse | amuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 went | xcomp |
| 17 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 amuse | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 friends | case |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 friends | nmod:poss |
| 20 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 amuse | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 feasted | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 feasted | cc |
| 23 | feasted | feast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 enjoyed | cc |
| 25 | enjoyed | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 feasted | conj |
| 26 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 enjoyed | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 thought | punct |
| 28 | without | without | ADP | _ | 30 thought | case |
| 29 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 thought | det |
| 30 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 enjoyed | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 mother | case |
| 32 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 mother | nmod:poss |
| 33 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 thought | nmod |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 home | case |
| 35 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 mother | nmod |
| 36 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 40 cursed | punct |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 cursed | nsubj |
| 38 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 cursed | aux |
| 39 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 40 cursed | aux:pass |
| 40 | cursed | curse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 feasted | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | Star | Sun | then | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to sun=Result | |||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | Star not said here | thus property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | go out in a quote | past | you | out property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | amuse in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | yourself | with your friends | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus yourself=Experiencer | |||
| 5 | feast in a quote | past | Star not said here | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | enjoy in a quote | past | Star not said here | yourself | without any thought of your mother at home | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer yourself=Stimulus | |||
| 7 | curse in a quote | shall · passive | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 8 | think in a quote | your mother at home | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=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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