Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 142

The prince took it into his hands, examined it, and at once gave half the kingdom to Manikkasari, and then inquired about the murderer. "

Who acts: prince · What happens: take, examine, give, inquire · To what, where: crown, hands, kingdom, Manikkasari

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 (prince), 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 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 hands	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hands	nmod:poss
7	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 took	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 examined	punct
9	examined	examine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 examined	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 gave	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 gave	cc
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 once	case
14	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	15 gave	obl
15	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
16	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	18 kingdom	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 kingdom	det
18	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gave	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 Manikkasari	case
20	Manikkasari	Manikkasari	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 gave	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 inquired	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 inquired	cc
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 inquired	advmod
24	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
25	about	about	ADP	_	27 murderer	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 murderer	det
27	murderer	murderer	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 inquired	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the prince	crown		prince's hands			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into hand=Destination
2	examine	past	the prince not said here	crown					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	give	past	the prince not said here	half kingdom	Manikkasari				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme at once=Asset to manikkasari=Recipient
4	inquire speech: other	past	the prince not said here				then	about the murderer	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about murderer=Topic

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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