Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 88
And the seven Princesses grieved very much, for they feared that their kind husbands must have been killed.
Who acts: seven Princesses, Princesses · What happens: grieve, fear, kill · To what, where: kind husbands · 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 (seven Princesses, Princesses), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 grieved | cc |
| 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 grieved | nsubj |
| 5 | grieved | grieve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 much | advmod |
| 7 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 grieved | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 feared | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 feared | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 feared | nsubj |
| 11 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 grieved | conj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 killed | mark |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 husbands | nmod:poss |
| 14 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 husbands | amod |
| 15 | husbands | husband | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 killed | aux |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 killed | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 killed | aux:pass |
| 19 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 feared | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grieved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grieve | past | the seven Princesses | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | fear | past | Princesses = princess | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | kill | must · perfect · passive | Princesses's kind husbands | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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