Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 36
He promised half his kingdom and his daughter's hand to him who would restore her to life.
Who acts: rat, hand · What happens: promise, restore · To what, where: kingdom, princess, life
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, hand), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 promised | nsubj |
| 2 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 5 kingdom | det:predet |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 5 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 promised | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 restore | cc |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 8 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hand | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 daughter | case |
| 10 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 restore | nsubj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 hand | nmod |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 restore | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 restore | aux |
| 15 | restore | restore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 promised | conj |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 restore | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 life | case |
| 18 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 restore | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | rat | rat's kingdom | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme | ||||
| 2 | restore | would | rat's daughter's hand to rat | princess | life | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Theme to life=Recipient |
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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