Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 24
When it was black night, the princess put on her lovely clothes and jewels, and sat on her roof.
Who acts: bowl · What happens: be, put, sit · To what, where: black night, princess, lovely clothes, roof
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 (bowl), 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 night | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 night | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 night | cop |
| 4 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 night | amod |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 princess | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 princess | det |
| 8 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 night | conj |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 princess | acl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 clothes | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 clothes | amod |
| 13 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 9 put | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 jewels | cc |
| 15 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 clothes | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sat | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sat | cc |
| 18 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 night | advcl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 roof | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 roof | nmod:poss |
| 21 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sat | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 night | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | bowl | black night and the princess | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | put | participle | the princess not said here | princess's lovely clothes and jewels | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on clothes=Destination | ||||
| 3 | sit | past | bowl not said here | princess's roof | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on roof=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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