Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 35
The young prince listened to his mother, and obeyed her for some time; but one day, when he was hunting on the three sides where he was allowed to go, he remembered what she had said to him about the fourth side, and he determined to go and see why she had forbidden him to hunt on that side.
Who acts: young prince, prince, friendship · What happens: listen, obey, hunt, allow, go, remember · To what, where: friendship, three sides, prince, side · 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 (young prince, prince, friendship), 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 | 3 prince | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 prince | amod |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 listened | nsubj |
| 4 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 mother | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mother | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 listened | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 obeyed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 obeyed | cc |
| 10 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 listened | conj |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 obeyed | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 time | det |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 obeyed | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 remembered | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 remembered | cc |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 day | nummod |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 remembered | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 day | punct |
| 20 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 23 hunting | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 hunting | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 hunting | aux |
| 23 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 day | acl |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 sides | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 sides | det |
| 26 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 sides | nummod |
| 27 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 hunting | obl |
| 28 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 31 allowed | advmod |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 allowed | aux:pass |
| 31 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 sides | acl:relcl |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 go | mark |
| 33 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 allowed | xcomp |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 day | punct |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 remembered | nsubj |
| 36 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 listened | parataxis |
| 37 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 40 said | obj |
| 38 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 said | nsubj |
| 39 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 said | aux |
| 40 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 36 remembered | ccomp |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 him | case |
| 42 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 said | obl |
| 43 | about | about | ADP | _ | 46 side | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 side | det |
| 45 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 46 side | amod |
| 46 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 said | obl |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 determined | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 determined | cc |
| 49 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 determined | nsubj |
| 50 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 remembered | conj |
| 51 | to | to | PART | _ | 52 go | mark |
| 52 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 50 determined | xcomp |
| 53 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 54 see | cc |
| 54 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 52 go | conj |
| 55 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 58 forbidden | advmod |
| 56 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 58 forbidden | nsubj |
| 57 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 58 forbidden | aux |
| 58 | forbidden | forbid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 54 see | ccomp |
| 59 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 58 forbidden | obj |
| 60 | to | to | PART | _ | 61 hunt | mark |
| 61 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 58 forbidden | xcomp |
| 62 | on | on | ADP | _ | 64 side | case |
| 63 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 64 side | det |
| 64 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 61 hunt | obl |
| 65 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 listened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past | the young prince | to prince's mother | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to mother=Theme | ||||
| 2 | obey | past | the young prince not said here | friendship | time | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 3 | hunt | past · progressive | prince | the three sides | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location | ||||
| 4 | allow | past · passive | prince | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | prince not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | remember | past | prince | day | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 7 | say speech: assert | past · perfect | friendship | prince | about the fourth side | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Topic to he=Recipient | |||
| 8 | determine | past | prince | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 9 | go | to-infinitive | prince not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 10 | see | infinitive | prince not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 11 | forbid | past · perfect | friendship | prince | tree rules | ||||
| 12 | hunt | to-infinitive | friendship not said here | that side | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location |
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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