Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 32
In a country there was a Raja who had an only son who every day went out to hunt.
Who acts: Raja, only son · What happens: be, have, go out, hunt · To what, where: country, only son
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 (Raja, only 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 country | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 country | det |
| 3 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 was | obl |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 was | expl |
| 5 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 Raja | det |
| 7 | Raja | Raja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 was | nsubj |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Raja | acl:relcl |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 son | det |
| 11 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 son | amod |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obj |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 went | nsubj |
| 14 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 day | det |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | nsubj |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 son | acl:relcl |
| 17 | out | out | ADV | _ | 16 went | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 hunt | mark |
| 19 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 went | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a Raja | a country; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location | ||||
| 2 | have | past | a Raja | a only son | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | ||||
| 3 | go out | past | a only son | out property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hunt | to-infinitive | a only son not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «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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