Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 138
Once there was a king called King Dantal, who had a great many rupees and soldiers and horses.
Who acts: king · What happens: be, call, have · To what, where: king, great many rupees · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5. 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 | Once | once | SCONJ | _ | 3 was | mark |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 6 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 king | acl |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 called | xcomp |
| 8 | Dantal | Dantal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 King | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 King | acl:relcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 rupees | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 rupees | amod |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 rupees | amod |
| 15 | rupees | rupee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 had | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 soldiers | cc |
| 17 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 rupees | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 horses | cc |
| 19 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 rupees | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a king | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | a king not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | have | past | King | a great many rupees and soldiers and horses | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rupee=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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