Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 26
Then the Raja's son sat on his bed and flew to her bed-room.
Who acts: son · What happens: sit, fly · To what, where: bed
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), 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 | 6 sat | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Raja | det |
| 3 | Raja | Raja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Raja | case |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sat | nsubj |
| 6 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 bed | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 bed | nmod:poss |
| 9 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sat | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 flew | cc |
| 11 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sat | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 room | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 room | nmod:poss |
| 14 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 room | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 bed | punct |
| 16 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flew | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | the Raja's son | son's bed | then | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bed=Location | |||
| 2 | fly | past | the Raja's son not said here | to woman's bed room result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to room=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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