Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 96
The bed flew up with him, and the Raja's son beat the drum, and the king heard him.
Who acts: bed, son, king · What happens: fly up, beat, hear · To what, where: drum, son
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 (bed, son, king), 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 bed | det |
| 2 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 flew | compound:prt |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 flew | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 beat | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 beat | cc |
| 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 | 13 beat | nsubj |
| 13 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 drum | det |
| 15 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 beat | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 heard | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 heard | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 king | det |
| 19 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 heard | nsubj |
| 20 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 heard | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly up | past | the bed | with king | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | beat | past | the Raja's son | the drum | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location drum=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | the king | son | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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