Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 72
He opened his handkerchief, and took out a sweetmeat.
Who acts: prince · What happens: open, take out · To what, where: handkerchief, sweetmeat
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 opened | nsubj |
| 2 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 handkerchief | nmod:poss |
| 4 | handkerchief | handkerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 opened | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 took | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 took | cc |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 opened | conj |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 took | compound:prt |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sweetmeat | det |
| 10 | sweetmeat | sweetmeat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | prince | prince's handkerchief | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location handkerchief=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take out | past | prince not said here | a sweetmeat | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweetmeat=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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