More English Fairy Tales, L. the Three Feathers, sentence 10
In the Indian version the various messengers are sent by the king to test the chastity of a peerless wife of whom he has heard.
Who acts: king · What happens: send, test, hear · To what, where: various messengers, Indian version, chastity
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, L. the Three Feathers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 version | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 version | det |
| 3 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 version | amod |
| 4 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sent | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 messengers | det |
| 6 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 messengers | amod |
| 7 | messengers | messenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sent | aux:pass |
| 9 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 king | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sent | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 test | mark |
| 14 | test | test | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 sent | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 chastity | det |
| 16 | chastity | chastity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 test | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 wife | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 wife | det |
| 19 | peerless | peerless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 wife | amod |
| 20 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 chastity | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 whom | case |
| 22 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 wife | nmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 heard | nsubj |
| 24 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 heard | aux |
| 25 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 whom | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | present · passive | the king | the various messengers | the Indian version | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in version=Destination | |||
| 2 | test | to-infinitive | the king not said here | the chastity of a peerless wife of the chastity of a peerless wife of the chastity | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chastity=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hear | present · perfect | king | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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