Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 93
The Raja's son thought of his little bed; so he went to the old woman's house and sat on his bed. "
Who acts: son · What happens: think, go, sit · To what, where: house, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Raja | det |
| 2 | Raja | Raja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Raja | case |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thought | nsubj |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 bed | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 bed | nmod:poss |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bed | amod |
| 9 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thought | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thought | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 house | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 woman | det |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 woman | amod |
| 17 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 house | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 woman | case |
| 19 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sat | cc |
| 21 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 went | conj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 bed | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 bed | nmod:poss |
| 24 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sat | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the Raja's son | of son's little bed | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | son | the old woman's house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | sit | past | son not said here | son's bed | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bed=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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