Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 138
When the king's attendants informed the prince about the death of his father he wept and wailed, and gave notice that he would give half of his kingdom to any one who should bring him news about the murderer of his father.
Who acts: attendants, king, one, father · What happens: inform, weep, wail, give, bring, die · To what, where: prince, father, notice, half, one, news
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 (attendants, king, one, father), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 informed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 attendants | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 king | case |
| 5 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 informed | nsubj |
| 6 | informed | inform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prince | det |
| 8 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 informed | obj |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 death | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 death | det |
| 11 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 informed | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 father | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 father | nmod:poss |
| 14 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 death | nmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 wept | nsubj |
| 16 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 father | acl:relcl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 wailed | cc |
| 18 | wailed | wail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 wept | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 gave | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 gave | cc |
| 21 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 informed | conj |
| 22 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gave | obj |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 give | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 give | nsubj |
| 25 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 give | aux |
| 26 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 gave | advcl |
| 27 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 26 give | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 kingdom | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 30 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 half | nmod |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 one | case |
| 32 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 33 one | det |
| 33 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 give | obl |
| 34 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 bring | nsubj |
| 35 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 bring | aux |
| 36 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 one | acl:relcl |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 bring | obj |
| 38 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 bring | obj |
| 39 | about | about | ADP | _ | 41 murderer | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 murderer | det |
| 41 | murderer | murderer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 news | nmod |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 father | case |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 father | nmod:poss |
| 44 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 murderer | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 informed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inform speech: other | past | the king's attendants | the prince | about the death of king's father | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient | |||
| 2 | weep | past | king | king's father not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent father=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wail | past | king not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | give | past | the king's attendants not said here | notice | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme | ||||
| 5 | give | would | king | half of king's kingdom | any one | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent half=Theme to one=Recipient | |||
| 6 | bring | should | any one | news | king | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination news=Theme | |||
| 7 | die | king's father | nom death «event intransitive»: of=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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