Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 80
The king again pressed Gangazara to accept the hand of his daughter.
Who acts: king · What happens: press, accept · To what, where: Gangazara, hand
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), 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 | 4 pressed | nsubj |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 pressed | advmod |
| 4 | pressed | press | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Gangazara | Gangazara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 pressed | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 accept | mark |
| 7 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 pressed | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hand | det |
| 9 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 accept | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 daughter | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 12 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hand | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | press | past | the king | Gangazara | again | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent gangazara=Result | |||
| 2 | accept | to-infinitive | the king not said here | the hand of Gangazara's daughter | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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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