Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 16
The king of the rats has promised to do his best to provide you with food.
Who acts: king · What happens: promise, do, provide · To what, where: best, you
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9. 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 | 7 promised | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 rats | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 rats | det |
| 5 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 king | nmod |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 promised | aux |
| 7 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 promised | xcomp |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 best | nmod:poss |
| 11 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 do | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 provide | mark |
| 13 | provide | provide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 do | advcl |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 provide | iobj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 food | case |
| 16 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 provide | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | present · perfect | the king of the rats | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | the king of the rats not said here | Gangazara's best | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | provide | to-infinitive | the king of the rats not said here | you | with food | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Recipient with food=Theme |
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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