Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 35
The king at once sent for all the snake-bite curers.
What happens: send · To what, where: king
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: 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 | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 5 sent | mark |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 sent | advmod |
| 5 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 king | acl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 curers | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 curers | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 curers | det |
| 9 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bite | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 snake | punct |
| 11 | bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 curers | compound |
| 12 | curers | curer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sent | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 king | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | participle | the king not said here | for all bite curers; once property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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