Indian Fairy Tales, XVI. the Son of Seven Queens., sentence 24
_ No. 80), the seven co-queens are transformed into seven step-daughters of the envious witch who causes their eyes to be taken out.
Who acts: No., envious witch · What happens: transform, cause, take out · To what, where: seven co-queens, eyes
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVI. the Son of Seven Queens.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (No., envious witch), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 No. | punct |
| 2 | No. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | 80 | 80 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 No. | flat |
| 4 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 3 80 | punct |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 transformed | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 co-queens | det |
| 7 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 co-queens | nummod |
| 8 | co-queens | co-queen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 transformed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 transformed | aux:pass |
| 10 | transformed | transform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 No. | acl |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 daughters | case |
| 12 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 daughters | nummod |
| 13 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 daughters | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 step | punct |
| 15 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 transformed | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 witch | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 witch | det |
| 18 | envious | envious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 witch | amod |
| 19 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 daughters | nmod |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 causes | nsubj |
| 21 | causes | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 witch | acl:relcl |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 23 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 causes | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 taken | mark |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 taken | aux:pass |
| 26 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 causes | advcl |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 taken | compound:prt |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 No. | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | transform | present · passive | No. not said here | the seven co-queens | into seven step daughters of the envious witch result | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into daughter=Result | |||
| 2 | cause | present | the envious witch | co-queens's eyes | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition eye=Patient | ||||
| 3 | take out | to-infinitive · passive | the envious witch not said here | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP» |
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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