Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 72
The prince makes no inquiry, and at once imprisons your honour.
Who acts: prince, your · What happens: make, imprison, honour · To what, where: inquiry, honour
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 (prince, your), 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 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 makes | nsubj |
| 3 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 inquiry | det |
| 5 | inquiry | inquiry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 makes | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 imprisons | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 imprisons | cc |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 once | case |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 imprisons | obl |
| 10 | imprisons | imprison | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 makes | conj |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 honour | nmod:poss |
| 12 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 imprisons | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | the prince | no inquiry | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inquiry=Product | ||||
| 2 | imprison | present | the prince not said here | your honour | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honour=Theme | ||||
| 3 | honour | your | nom honour «state 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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