Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 24
Thus comforting his protector in trouble, he advised him to pluck up courage, and took leave of him.
Who acts: calamity, prince · What happens: comfort, advise, pluck up, take · To what, where: protector, trouble, prince, courage, leave
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 (calamity, 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 2 comforting | advmod |
| 2 | comforting | comfort | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 advised | advcl |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 protector | nmod:poss |
| 4 | protector | protector | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 comforting | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 trouble | case |
| 6 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 comforting | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 comforting | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 advised | nsubj |
| 9 | advised | advise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 advised | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 pluck | mark |
| 12 | pluck | pluck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 advised | xcomp |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 pluck | compound:prt |
| 14 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pluck | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 took | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 took | cc |
| 17 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 advised | conj |
| 18 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 took | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 leave | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 advised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | comfort | gerund | calamity not said here | calamity's protector | trouble | thus property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus protector=Experiencer | ||
| 2 | advise speech: other | past | calamity | prince | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | pluck up not said to happen | to-infinitive | prince not said here | courage | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Patient | ||||
| 4 | take | past | calamity not said here | leave of calamity | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=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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