Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 70
Meantime the seven Princesses awoke, and when they found themselves all alone in the thick jungle they were much frightened, and began to call out as loud as they could, in hopes of making their father hear; but he was by that time far away, and would not have been able to hear them even had their voices been as loud as thunder.
Who acts: Meantime, Princesses, thick jungle, hopes, father, voices · What happens: awake, find, frighten, begin, call out, make · To what, where: Princesses, thick jungle, hopes
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 (Meantime, Princesses, thick jungle, hopes), 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 | Meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 awoke | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Princesses | det |
| 3 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 Princesses | nummod |
| 4 | Princesses | Princess | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 awoke | nsubj |
| 5 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 found | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 found | cc |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 found | advmod |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 found | nsubj |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 awoke | conj |
| 11 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 found | obj |
| 12 | all | all | ADV | _ | 13 alone | advmod |
| 13 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 10 found | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 jungle | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 jungle | det |
| 16 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 jungle | amod |
| 17 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 found | obl |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 frightened | aux:pass |
| 20 | much | much | ADV | _ | 21 frightened | advmod |
| 21 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 jungle | acl:relcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 began | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 began | cc |
| 24 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 awoke | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 call | mark |
| 26 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 began | xcomp |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 call | compound:prt |
| 28 | as | as | ADV | _ | 29 loud | advmod |
| 29 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 call | xcomp |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 could | mark |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 could | nsubj |
| 32 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 loud | advcl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 hopes | punct |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 hopes | case |
| 35 | hopes | hope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 call | obl |
| 36 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 37 making | mark |
| 37 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 hopes | acl |
| 38 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 father | nmod:poss |
| 39 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 hear | nsubj |
| 40 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 making | xcomp |
| 41 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 47 time | punct |
| 42 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 47 time | cc |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 time | nsubj |
| 44 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 time | cop |
| 45 | by | by | ADP | _ | 47 time | case |
| 46 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 47 time | det |
| 47 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 awoke | obl |
| 48 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 49 away | advmod |
| 49 | away | away | ADV | _ | 47 time | advmod |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 able | punct |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 able | cc |
| 52 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 56 able | aux |
| 53 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 56 able | advmod |
| 54 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 56 able | aux |
| 55 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 56 able | cop |
| 56 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 awoke | advcl |
| 57 | to | to | PART | _ | 58 hear | mark |
| 58 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 56 able | xcomp |
| 59 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 58 hear | obj |
| 60 | even | even | ADV | _ | 61 had | advmod |
| 61 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 58 hear | advcl |
| 62 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 63 voices | nmod:poss |
| 63 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 66 loud | nsubj |
| 64 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 66 loud | cop |
| 65 | as | as | ADV | _ | 66 loud | advmod |
| 66 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 61 had | ccomp |
| 67 | as | as | ADP | _ | 68 thunder | case |
| 68 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 66 loud | obl |
| 69 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | Meantime | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find | past | Princesses = princess | Princesses = princess | the thick jungle | alone property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Topic | ||
| 3 | frighten | past · passive | the thick jungle not said here | Princesses = princess | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | begin | past | Meantime not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | call out speech: assert | to-infinitive | Meantime not said here | hopes | loud property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 6 | make | gerund | hopes not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | hear | infinitive | Princesses's father | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 8 | is | past | father | by that time | away property | tree rules | |||
| 9 | not is | would · perfect | Meantime not said here | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | hear | to-infinitive | Meantime not said here | Princesses = princess | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 11 | have | past | Meantime not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 12 | is | participle | Princesses's voices | as thunder; loud property | tree rules |
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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