Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 148
The Raja's son watched the princess quietly, and was very happy.
Who acts: son · What happens: watch, be · To what, where: princess
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), 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 watched | nsubj |
| 5 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 princess | det |
| 7 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 watched | obj |
| 8 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 5 watched | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 happy | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 happy | cc |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 happy | cop |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 happy | advmod |
| 13 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 watched | parataxis |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | the Raja's son | the princess | quietly property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | happy property | 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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