Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 98
So the poor Princess was dragged away, without any power of effecting an escape, or of letting her sisters know what had become of her.
Who acts: power, sisters · What happens: drag away, effect, let, know, become · To what, where: poor Princess, escape · 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 (power, sisters), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 dragged | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Princess | det |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Princess | amod |
| 4 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 dragged | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dragged | aux:pass |
| 6 | dragged | drag | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 dragged | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 power | punct |
| 9 | without | without | ADP | _ | 11 power | case |
| 10 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 power | det |
| 11 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dragged | obl |
| 12 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 13 effecting | mark |
| 13 | effecting | effect | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 power | acl |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 escape | det |
| 15 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 effecting | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 letting | punct |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 letting | cc |
| 18 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 19 letting | mark |
| 19 | letting | let | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 dragged | advcl |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 21 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 know | nsubj |
| 22 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 letting | parataxis |
| 23 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 25 become | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 become | aux |
| 25 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 know | ccomp |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 her | case |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 become | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dragged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drag away | past · passive | the poor Princess | without any power; away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | effect | gerund | any power not said here | a escape | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | let | gerund | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | know | present | Magician's sisters | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | become | past · perfect | of Magician | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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