Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 9
Then the king was pleased, and gave him the revenue of many villages.
Who acts: king · What happens: be, give · To what, where: revenue, king
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 pleased | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pleased | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleased | cop |
| 5 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 gave | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 gave | cc |
| 8 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleased | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 gave | iobj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 revenue | det |
| 11 | revenue | revenue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 villages | case |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 villages | amod |
| 14 | villages | village | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 revenue | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the king | then | pleased property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | give | past | the king not said here | the revenue of many villages | king | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient revenue=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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