Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 10
When night came the princess got up and sat on her roof, and at twelve o'clock, when every one was in bed, she went to her bed-room, and was soon fast asleep.
Who acts: night, princess, one · What happens: come, get up, sit, be, go · To what, where: roof, bed, twelve o'clock
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (night, princess, one), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 2 night | mark |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 princess | det |
| 5 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 got | nsubj |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 got | compound:prt |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sat | cc |
| 9 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 got | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 roof | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 roof | nmod:poss |
| 12 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sat | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 went | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 went | cc |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 o'clock | case |
| 16 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 o'clock | nummod |
| 17 | o'clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 went | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 bed | punct |
| 19 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 24 bed | mark |
| 20 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 one | det |
| 21 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bed | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 bed | cop |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 bed | case |
| 24 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 o'clock | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 o'clock | punct |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 went | nsubj |
| 27 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 room | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 room | nmod:poss |
| 30 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 room | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 bed | punct |
| 32 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 went | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 asleep | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 asleep | cc |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 asleep | cop |
| 36 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 38 asleep | advmod |
| 37 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 38 asleep | advmod |
| 38 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 came | parataxis |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | night | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | get up | past | the princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | sit | past | the princess not said here | princess's roof | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on roof=Location | ||||
| 4 | is | past | every one | bed | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go | past | princess | twelve o'clock and bed | to princess's bed room | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | is | past | asleep, fast, soon property | 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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