Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 87
The king, his father, was in great distress about the matter, and did not know what to do.
Who acts: king · What happens: be, not know, do · To what, where: great distress · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | 10 distress | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 father | punct |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 father | nmod:poss |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 king | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 king | punct |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 distress | cop |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 distress | case |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 distress | amod |
| 10 | distress | distress | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 matter | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 matter | det |
| 13 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 distress | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 know | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 know | cc |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 know | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 know | advmod |
| 18 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 distress | parataxis |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 do | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 do | mark |
| 21 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 know | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 distress | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the king and king's father | great distress | about the matter | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not know | past · do-support | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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