Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 136
When it was full, the prince cried out, "Stop, bowl," and the bowl stopped filling. "
Who acts: water, prince, bowl · What happens: be, cry out, stop, fill · To what, where: bowl · 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 (water, prince, bowl), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 4 full | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 full | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 full | cop |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prince | det |
| 7 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | nsubj |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 full | conj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 cried | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Stop | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Stop | punct |
| 12 | Stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 cried | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bowl | punct |
| 14 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Stop | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Stop | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Stop | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 stopped | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bowl | det |
| 19 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stopped | nsubj |
| 20 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 cried | conj |
| 21 | filling | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 stopped | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 full | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 full | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | water | full property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry out speech: express | past | the prince | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | stop in a quote | infinitive | bowl | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality bowl=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | stop | past | the bowl | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | fill | gerund | the bowl not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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