Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 47
The king begged forgiveness for his former fault, and requested him to revive his daughter.
Who acts: king, Gangazara · What happens: beg, request, revive, fault · To what, where: forgiveness, Gangazara, daughter
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, Gangazara), 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 | 3 begged | nsubj |
| 3 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | forgiveness | forgiveness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 begged | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 fault | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 fault | nmod:poss |
| 7 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fault | amod |
| 8 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 begged | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 requested | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 requested | cc |
| 11 | requested | request | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 begged | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 requested | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 revive | mark |
| 14 | revive | revive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 requested | advcl |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 16 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 revive | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | the king | forgiveness | for Gangazara's former fault | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent forgiveness=Recipient for fault=Topic | |||
| 2 | request | past | the king not said here | Gangazara | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | revive | to-infinitive | the king not said here | Gangazara's daughter | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | ||||
| 4 | fault | Gangazara | nom fault «act transitive»: poss=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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