Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 119
The prince next day did exactly as the princess had told him; and the minute the hair that was stretched down the edge of the hatchet-blade touched the tree-trunk it split into two pieces.
Who acts: prince next day, minute, hair · What happens: do, tell, stretch, touch, split · To what, where: princess, Labam, hair, tree trunk, two pieces · 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 (prince next day, minute, hair), 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 | 4 day | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 day | compound |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 5 did | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 told | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 princess | det |
| 9 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 told | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 told | aux |
| 11 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 did | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 told | iobj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 touched | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 touched | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 minute | det |
| 16 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 touched | nsubj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hair | det |
| 18 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 touched | nsubj |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 stretched | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 stretched | aux:pass |
| 21 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 hair | acl:relcl |
| 22 | down | down | ADP | _ | 24 edge | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 edge | det |
| 24 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stretched | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 blade | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 blade | det |
| 27 | hatchet | hatchet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 blade | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 hatchet | punct |
| 29 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 edge | nmod |
| 30 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 did | parataxis |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 trunk | det |
| 32 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 trunk | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 tree | punct |
| 34 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 touched | obj |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 split | nsubj |
| 36 | split | split | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 trunk | acl:relcl |
| 37 | into | into | ADP | _ | 39 pieces | case |
| 38 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 pieces | nummod |
| 39 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 split | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the prince next day | exactly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | the princess | Labam | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic | ||||
| 3 | stretch | past · passive | the hair | down the edge of the hatchet blade | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | touch | past | the minute | the tree trunk | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme trunk=Co-Theme | ||||
| 5 | split | past | hair | the tree trunk not said here | into two pieces result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent trunk=Patient into piece=Result |
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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