Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 118
"The Princess Labam's country," they answered.
Who acts: Lion · What happens: answer
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 (Lion), 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 | _ | 6 country | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Labam | det |
| 3 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Labam | compound |
| 4 | Labam | Labam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 country | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Labam | case |
| 6 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 country | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 answered | nsubj |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Lion | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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