Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 142
King Dantal had a teacher for them to teach them to read and write.
Who acts: King, fruits · What happens: have, teach, read, write · To what, where: teacher, rupees
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, fruits), 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 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 2 | Dantal | Dantal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 King | flat |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 teacher | det |
| 5 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 teach | mark |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 teach | nsubj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 teach | mark |
| 9 | teach | teach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | advcl |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 teach | iobj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 read | mark |
| 12 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 teach | xcomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 write | cc |
| 14 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 read | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | King | a teacher | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teacher=Patient | ||||
| 2 | teach speech: other | to-infinitive | fruits = fruit | rupees = rupee | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | read | to-infinitive | fruits = fruit not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | write | infinitive | fruits = fruit not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: 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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