Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 73
When he heard of the demons the Raja's son was very sad. "
Who acts: king, son · What happens: hear, be · 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 (king, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 demons | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 demons | det |
| 6 | demons | demon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 heard | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Raja | det |
| 8 | Raja | Raja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 son | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Raja | case |
| 10 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sad | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 sad | cop |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 sad | advmod |
| 13 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 heard | ccomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 sad | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | king | of the demons | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of demon=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the Raja's son | sad property | tree rules |
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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