Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 136
The king of Ujjaini had a week before gone with all his hunters on a hunting expedition.
Who acts: king · What happens: have, go
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Ujjaini | case |
| 4 | Ujjaini | Ujjaini | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 king | nmod |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 week | det |
| 7 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 8 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 9 gone | mark |
| 9 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 had | xcomp |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 hunters | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 hunters | det:predet |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hunters | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 gone | obl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 expedition | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 expedition | det |
| 16 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 expedition | compound |
| 17 | expedition | expedition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hunters | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the king of Ujjaini | week | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | participle | the king of Ujjaini not said here | with king's hunters on a hunting expedition | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with hunter=Beneficiary |
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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