Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 42
No sooner had she eaten it, however, than the Prudhan's daughter went home and said to her mother, "I do not wonder the seven Princesses will not eat the dinner you prepare for them, for by their mother's grave there grows a beautiful pomelo tree, and they go there every day and eat the pomeloes.
Who acts: mother, daughter, seven Princesses, grave, daughters · What happens: eat, go, say, not wonder, not eat, prepare · To what, where: dinner, mother, beautiful pomelo tree, pomeloes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, daughter, seven Princesses, grave), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 sooner | det |
| 2 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 eaten | advmod |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 eaten | aux |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 eaten | nsubj |
| 5 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 eaten | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 however | punct |
| 8 | however | however | ADV | _ | 5 eaten | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 10 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 15 went | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Prudhan | det |
| 12 | Prudhan | Prudhan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Prudhan | case |
| 14 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | nsubj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 eaten | conj |
| 16 | home | home | ADV | _ | 15 went | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 went | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 mother | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 mother | nmod:poss |
| 21 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 wonder | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 wonder | punct |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 wonder | nsubj |
| 25 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 wonder | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 wonder | advmod |
| 27 | wonder | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 said | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Princesses | det |
| 29 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 Princesses | nummod |
| 30 | Princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 eat | nsubj |
| 31 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 eat | aux |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 eat | advmod |
| 33 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 wonder | ccomp |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 dinner | det |
| 35 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 eat | obj |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 prepare | nsubj |
| 37 | prepare | prepare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 dinner | acl:relcl |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 them | case |
| 39 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 prepare | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 grave | punct |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 46 grave | case |
| 42 | by | by | ADP | _ | 46 grave | case |
| 43 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 mother | nmod:poss |
| 44 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 grave | nmod:poss |
| 45 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 44 mother | case |
| 46 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 grows | nsubj |
| 47 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 48 grows | advmod |
| 48 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 eat | parataxis |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 52 tree | det |
| 50 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 tree | amod |
| 51 | pomelo | pomelo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 tree | compound |
| 52 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 grows | obj |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 go | punct |
| 54 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 go | cc |
| 55 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 56 go | nsubj |
| 56 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 48 grows | parataxis |
| 57 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 56 go | advmod |
| 58 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 59 day | det |
| 59 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 go | obl:unmarked |
| 60 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 61 eat | cc |
| 61 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 56 go | conj |
| 62 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 63 pomeloes | det |
| 63 | pomeloes | pomeloe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 61 eat | obj |
| 64 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 eaten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past · perfect | mother | dinner | however, soon property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 2 | go | past | the Prudhan's daughter | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Prudhan's daughter not said here | mother's mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mother=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | not wonder speech: ask in a quote | present · do-support | the Prudhan's daughter = daughter | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | not eat in a quote | future | the seven Princesses | the dinner | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient | ||||
| 6 | prepare in a quote | present | mother's mother = mother | the dinner not said here | for Princesses = princess | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent dinner=Product for they=Beneficiary | |||
| 7 | grow in a quote | present | Princesses's mother's grave | a beautiful pomelo tree | there | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme | |||
| 8 | go in a quote | present | daughters = daughter | there | day | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 9 | eat in a quote | present | daughters = daughter not said here | the pomeloes | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pomeloe=Patient |
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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