Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 43
Then he said to the parrots, "Who is the Princess Labam?
Who acts: prince, parrots · What happens: say, be · To what, where: parrots, Princess Labam · 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, parrots), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 parrots | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 parrots | det |
| 6 | parrots | parrot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Labam | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Labam | punct |
| 9 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 Labam | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 Labam | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Labam | det |
| 12 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Labam | compound |
| 13 | Labam | Labam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 parrots | nmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | prince | the parrots | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to parrot=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | the parrots | the Princess Labam | 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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