Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 2
The tiger-king, serpent-king, and rat-king assembled at once with their armies at a garden near the dungeon, and for a while did not know what to do.
Who acts: rat king, tiger king · What happens: assemble, not know, do · To what, where: tiger king, garden · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (rat king, tiger 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 | 4 king | det |
| 2 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 king | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 tiger | punct |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 know | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 king | punct |
| 6 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 king | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 serpent | punct |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 king | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 assembled | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 assembled | cc |
| 11 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 king | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 rat | punct |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 assembled | nsubj |
| 14 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 king | acl |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 once | case |
| 16 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 14 assembled | obl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 armies | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 armies | nmod:poss |
| 19 | armies | army | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 assembled | obl |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 garden | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 garden | det |
| 22 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 assembled | obl |
| 23 | near | near | ADP | _ | 25 dungeon | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 dungeon | det |
| 25 | dungeon | dungeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 garden | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 know | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 know | cc |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 while | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 while | det |
| 30 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 know | obl |
| 31 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 know | aux |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 know | advmod |
| 33 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 34 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 36 do | obj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 do | mark |
| 36 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 know | ccomp |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assemble | participle | rat king | the tiger king and serpent king not said here | a garden near the dungeon | with king's armies | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent king=Theme | ||
| 2 | not know | past · do-support | the tiger king and serpent king | while | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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