Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 100
Then the king showed him the trunk of a tree that was lying near his court-house.
Who acts: king, tree · What happens: show, lie · To what, where: trunk, son, court house
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 (king, tree), 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 | 4 showed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 showed | nsubj |
| 4 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 showed | iobj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 trunk | det |
| 7 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 showed | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 tree | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 tree | det |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 trunk | nmod |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 lying | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 lying | aux |
| 13 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 tree | acl:relcl |
| 14 | near | near | ADP | _ | 18 house | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 house | nmod:poss |
| 16 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 house | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 court | punct |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lying | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past | the king | the trunk of a tree | son | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient trunk=Topic | ||
| 2 | lie | past · progressive | a tree | king's court house | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near house=Location |
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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