Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 61
The Ranee, on hearing how well the Princesses fared, was exceedingly angry, and sent her servants to pull down the dead Ranee's tomb, and fill the little tank with the ruins.
Who acts: Ranee · What happens: hear, fare, be, send, pull down, fill · To what, where: servants, tomb, little tank
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 | 2 Ranee | det |
| 2 | Ranee | Ranee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 fared | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ranee | punct |
| 4 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 5 hearing | mark |
| 5 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 fared | advcl |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 well | advmod |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 hearing | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Princesses | det |
| 9 | Princesses | Princess | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 fared | nsubj |
| 10 | fared | fare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 angry | punct |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 angry | cop |
| 13 | exceedingly | exceedingly | ADV | _ | 14 angry | advmod |
| 14 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fared | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sent | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sent | cc |
| 17 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 fared | conj |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 servants | nmod:poss |
| 19 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 sent | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 pull | mark |
| 21 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 sent | advcl |
| 22 | down | down | ADP | _ | 21 pull | compound:prt |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Ranee | det |
| 24 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Ranee | amod |
| 25 | Ranee | Ranee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 tomb | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 Ranee | case |
| 27 | tomb | tomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pull | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 fill | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 fill | cc |
| 30 | fill | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 fared | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 tank | det |
| 32 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 tank | amod |
| 33 | tank | tank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 fill | obj |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 ruins | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 ruins | det |
| 36 | ruins | ruin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 fill | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 fared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | the Ranee not said here | well property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | fare | past | the Ranee | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | past | angry, exceedingly property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | send | past | the Ranee not said here | Ranee's servants | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Theme | ||||
| 5 | pull down | to-infinitive | the Ranee not said here | the dead Ranee's tomb | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tomb=Theme | ||||
| 6 | fill | present | the Ranee not said here | the little tank | with the ruins | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent tank=Patient with ruin=Instrument |
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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