Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 44
The cruel Ranee was much vexed at hearing this, and all next day she stayed in her room, and told the Raja that she had a very bad headache.
Who acts: Ranee · What happens: vex, hear, stay, tell, have · To what, where: cruel Ranee, this, room, Raja, bad headache · 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 (Ranee), 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 | 3 Ranee | det |
| 2 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Ranee | amod |
| 3 | Ranee | Ranee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 vexed | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 vexed | aux:pass |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 6 vexed | advmod |
| 6 | vexed | vex | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 8 hearing | mark |
| 8 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 vexed | advcl |
| 9 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 hearing | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stayed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 stayed | cc |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 day | det |
| 13 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 day | amod |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stayed | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 stayed | nsubj |
| 16 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 vexed | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 room | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 room | nmod:poss |
| 19 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stayed | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 told | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 told | cc |
| 22 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 stayed | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Raja | det |
| 24 | Raja | raja | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 told | obj |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 had | mark |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 had | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 told | ccomp |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 headache | det |
| 29 | very | very | ADV | _ | 30 bad | advmod |
| 30 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 headache | amod |
| 31 | headache | headache | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 had | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 vexed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vex | past · passive | the cruel Ranee | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | hear | gerund | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | stay | past | Ranee | Ranee's room | day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in room=Location | |||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | Ranee not said here | the Raja | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent raja=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | have | past | Ranee | a bad headache | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent headache=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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