Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 110

There was the place only, just as he knew it before he had tried the charmed ring which Raja Indrasha had given him.

Who acts: place, Raja · What happens: be, know, try, charm, give · To what, where: escape, charmed ring, place

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (place, Raja), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 place	det
4	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	only	only	ADV	_	2 was	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 knew	punct
7	just	just	ADV	_	10 knew	advmod
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 knew	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 knew	nsubj
10	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 knew	obj
12	before	before	SCONJ	_	15 tried	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 tried	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 tried	aux
15	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 knew	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ring	det
17	charmed	charm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 ring	amod
18	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tried	obj
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 given	obj
20	Raja	Raja	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 given	nsubj
21	Indrasha	Indrasha	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Raja	flat
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 given	aux
23	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 ring	acl:relcl
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 given	iobj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	be	past	the place			there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	know	past	place	escape			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	try	past · perfect	place	the charmed ring			vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Eventuality
4	charm	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	give	past · perfect	Raja	the charmed ring	place		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient which=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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