Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 29
Then he took the Princess Labam's hand gently to put on the ring, and she started up very much frightened.
Who acts: son, Khuda · What happens: take, put, start up · To what, where: hand, ring
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, Khuda), 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 | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Labam | det |
| 5 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Labam | compound |
| 6 | Labam | Labam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 hand | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Labam | case |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 9 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 put | mark |
| 11 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | advcl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 ring | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ring | det |
| 14 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 put | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 started | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 started | cc |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 started | nsubj |
| 18 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 started | compound:prt |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 much | advmod |
| 21 | much | much | ADV | _ | 22 frightened | advmod |
| 22 | frightened | frightened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 started | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | son | the Princess Labam's hand | then | gently property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||
| 2 | put | to-infinitive | son not said here | the ring | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on ring=Destination | ||||
| 3 | start up | past | Khuda | frightened property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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