Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 89
One day, not long after this had happened, as Balna was rocking her baby's cradle, and whilst her sisters were working in the room below, there came to the palace door a man in a long black dress, who said that he was a Fakir, and came to beg.
Who acts: this, Balna, sisters, long black dress, husband · What happens: happen, rock, work, come, say, be · To what, where: cradle, man, palace door, Fakir · 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 (this, Balna, sisters, long black dress), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 happened | punct |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 long | advmod |
| 5 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 happened | advmod |
| 6 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 9 happened | mark |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 happened | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 happened | aux |
| 9 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 day | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 rocking | punct |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 rocking | mark |
| 12 | Balna | Balna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 rocking | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 rocking | aux |
| 14 | rocking | rock | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 happened | conj |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 baby | nmod:poss |
| 16 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cradle | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 baby | case |
| 18 | cradle | cradle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rocking | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 working | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 working | cc |
| 21 | whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 25 working | mark |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 23 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 working | nsubj |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 working | aux |
| 25 | working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 rocking | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 room | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 room | det |
| 28 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 working | obl |
| 29 | below | below | ADV | _ | 25 working | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 came | punct |
| 31 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 32 came | expl |
| 32 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 rocking | parataxis |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 door | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 door | det |
| 35 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 door | compound |
| 36 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 came | obl |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 man | det |
| 38 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 came | xcomp |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 dress | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 dress | det |
| 41 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 dress | amod |
| 42 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 dress | amod |
| 43 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 man | nmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 said | punct |
| 45 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 46 said | nsubj |
| 46 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 dress | conj |
| 47 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 51 Fakir | mark |
| 48 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 Fakir | nsubj |
| 49 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 Fakir | cop |
| 50 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 51 Fakir | det |
| 51 | Fakir | fakir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 said | ccomp |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 came | punct |
| 53 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 54 came | cc |
| 54 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 came | conj |
| 55 | to | to | PART | _ | 56 beg | mark |
| 56 | beg | beg | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 54 came | xcomp |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past · perfect | this | long property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rock | past · progressive | Balna | Balna's baby's cradle | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cradle=Theme | ||||
| 3 | work | past · progressive | Balna's sisters | in the room; below property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in room=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come | past | a man in a long black dress | the palace door; there | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | a long black dress | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is a | past | husband | a Fakir | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | come | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | beg speech: request | to-infinitive | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent |
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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