Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 56

Gangazara would not accept anything, but asked the king to assemble all his subjects in a wood near the town. "

Who acts: Gangazara · What happens: not accept, ask, assemble · To what, where: anything, king, subjects, wood

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 (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	Gangazara	Gangazara	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 accept	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 accept	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 accept	advmod
4	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 accept	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 asked	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 asked	cc
8	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 accept	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 asked	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 assemble	mark
12	assemble	assemble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 asked	xcomp
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 subjects	det:predet
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 subjects	nmod:poss
15	subjects	subject	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 assemble	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 wood	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 wood	det
18	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 assemble	obl
19	near	near	ADP	_	21 town	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 town	det
21	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 assemble	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 accept	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 accept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not accept	would	Gangazara	anything				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past			the king			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic
3	assemble not said to happen	to-infinitive		Gangazara's subjects		a wood	near the town	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=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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