Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 53
When the young men got to hear of this further increase of wealth they began to be more attentive and pleasing to their father than ever before.
Who acts: young men, men · What happens: get, hear, begin, be, please · To what, where: further increase
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 (young men, men), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 got | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 men | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 men | amod |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 hear | mark |
| 7 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 got | xcomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 increase | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 increase | det |
| 10 | further | further | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 increase | amod |
| 11 | increase | increase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hear | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 wealth | case |
| 13 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 increase | nmod |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 began | nsubj |
| 15 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 increase | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 attentive | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 attentive | cop |
| 18 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 attentive | advmod |
| 19 | attentive | attentive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hear | advcl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 pleasing | cc |
| 21 | pleasing | please | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 attentive | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 father | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 father | nmod:poss |
| 24 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pleasing | obl |
| 25 | than | than | ADP | _ | 26 ever | case |
| 26 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 27 before | advmod |
| 27 | before | before | ADV | _ | 21 pleasing | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the young men | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | hear | to-infinitive | the young men not said here | of this further increase of wealth | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of increase=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | men = man | this further increase of wealth not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent increase=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | the young men not said here | attentive property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | please | gerund | the young men not said here | to men's father; before property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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