Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 89

At last he determined to seek the counsel of his aunt, who was an ogress.

Who acts: king, aunt · What happens: determine, seek, be · To what, where: last, counsel, ogress

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, aunt), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 determined	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 determined	nsubj
4	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 seek	mark
6	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 determined	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 counsel	det
8	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seek	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 aunt	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 aunt	nmod:poss
11	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 counsel	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ogress	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 ogress	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 ogress	cop
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 ogress	det
16	ogress	ogress	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 aunt	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 determined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	determine	past	king		last	vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	seek	to-infinitive	king not said here	the counsel of king's aunt and a ogress		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme
3	is a	past	king's aunt and a ogress	a ogress		tree rules

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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