Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 104
He was very sad, and thought that now the Raja would certainly kill him. "
Who acts: son, Raja · What happens: be, think, kill · To what, where: son · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (son, Raja), 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 | 4 sad | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sad | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 sad | advmod |
| 4 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 thought | cc |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sad | parataxis |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 kill | mark |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 kill | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Raja | det |
| 11 | Raja | Raja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 kill | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 kill | aux |
| 13 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 14 kill | advmod |
| 14 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 thought | ccomp |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 kill | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sad | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | son | sad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | kill | would | the Raja | son | now | certainly property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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