Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 42
The prince was greatly surprised, and said, "Why, these birds can talk!"
Who acts: prince, birds · What happens: be, say, talk · 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 (prince, birds), 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 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 surprised | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 surprised | cop |
| 4 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 5 surprised | advmod |
| 5 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 surprised | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Why | punct |
| 11 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 said | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 talk | punct |
| 13 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 14 birds | det |
| 14 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 talk | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 talk | aux |
| 16 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 surprised | parataxis |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 surprised | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 surprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the prince | greatly, surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the prince not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | talk in a quote | can | this birds | vn talk-37.5 «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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