Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 5
In the morning the old woman came to the Raja's son. "
Who acts: old woman · What happens: come
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 (old woman), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 morning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 woman | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 woman | amod |
| 6 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 son | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Raja | det |
| 10 | Raja | Raja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 son | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Raja | case |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the old woman | morning | to the Raja's son | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to son=Initial_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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