Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 48
The prince grew very sad when they would not tell him anything more; and he threw his gun away, and went home.
Who acts: prince, parrots · What happens: grow, not tell, throw away, go · To what, where: anything, prince, gun · 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 sad | advmod |
| 5 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grew | xcomp |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 tell | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 tell | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 tell | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 tell | advmod |
| 10 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 grew | advcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 tell | iobj |
| 12 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 tell | obj |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 tell | advmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 threw | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 threw | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 threw | nsubj |
| 17 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grew | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 gun | nmod:poss |
| 19 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 threw | obj |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 threw | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 went | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 went | cc |
| 23 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grew | conj |
| 24 | home | home | ADV | _ | 23 went | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the prince | sad property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not tell speech: assert | would | parrots = parrot | anything | prince | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient anything=Topic | |||
| 3 | throw away | past | prince | prince's gun | away property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=Theme | |||
| 4 | go | past | the prince not said here | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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