Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 145

They brought Gangazara to the presence of the prince, who turned his face away from the supposed murderer, and asked his soldiers to throw him into a dungeon.

Who acts: soldiers, prince · What happens: bring, turn, suppose, ask, throw · To what, where: Gangazara, presence, face, soldiers, prince, dungeon

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 (soldiers, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 brought	nsubj
2	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Gangazara	Gangazara	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 brought	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 presence	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 presence	det
6	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brought	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 prince	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 prince	det
9	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 presence	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 turned	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 turned	nsubj
12	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 prince	acl:relcl
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 face	nmod:poss
14	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 turned	obj
15	away	away	ADV	_	12 turned	advmod
16	from	from	ADP	_	19 murderer	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 murderer	det
18	supposed	suppose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 murderer	amod
19	murderer	murderer	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 away	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 asked	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 asked	cc
22	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 brought	conj
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 soldiers	nmod:poss
24	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 asked	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 throw	mark
26	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 asked	xcomp
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 throw	obj
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 dungeon	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 dungeon	det
30	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 throw	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bring	past	soldiers = soldier	Gangazara	the presence of the prince		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gangazara=Theme to presence=Destination
2	turn	past	the prince	prince's face		away property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Theme
3	suppose	participle					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	ask speech: ask	past	soldiers = soldier not said here	prince's soldiers			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent soldier=Recipient clause=Topic
5	throw not said to happen	to-infinitive	prince's soldiers not said here	prince		into a dungeon result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer he=Theme into dungeon=Result

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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