Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 117
The Raja's son asked some men he saw, "Whose country is this?"
Who acts: son, men, country · What happens: ask, see, be · To what, where: this · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, men, country), 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 Raja | det |
| 2 | Raja | Raja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Raja | case |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 men | det |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 asked | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 this | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 this | punct |
| 12 | Whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 13 country | nmod:poss |
| 13 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 this | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 this | cop |
| 15 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 saw | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 asked | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the Raja's son | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | see | past | some men | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | country | this | tree rules |
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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