Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 141
He went before the prince and informed him that the assassin was caught, and placed the crown before him.
Who acts: king · What happens: go, inform, catch, place · To what, where: king, assassin, crown · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | before | before | ADP | _ | 5 prince | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 informed | cc |
| 7 | informed | inform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 informed | iobj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 caught | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 assassin | det |
| 11 | assassin | assassin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 caught | aux:pass |
| 13 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 informed | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 placed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 placed | cc |
| 16 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 crown | det |
| 18 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 placed | obj |
| 19 | before | before | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 placed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | king | before the prince | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before prince=Location | ||||
| 2 | inform speech: other | past | king not said here | king | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | catch | past · passive | the assassin | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | place | past | king not said here | the crown | before king | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent crown=Theme before he=Destination |
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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