Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 108
The king read the paper, and ordering the man to be flogged, dismissed him.
Who acts: king · What happens: read, order, flog, dismiss · To what, where: paper, man
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11. 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 | 3 read | nsubj |
| 3 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 paper | det |
| 5 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 read | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ordering | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 ordering | cc |
| 8 | ordering | order | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 read | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ordering | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 flogged | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 flogged | aux:pass |
| 13 | flogged | flog | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 man | acl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 dismissed | punct |
| 15 | dismissed | dismiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 read | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 dismissed | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 read | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | past | the king | the paper | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paper=Topic | ||||
| 2 | order | gerund | the king not said here | the man | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | ||||
| 3 | flog | to-infinitive · passive | the king not said here | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 4 | dismiss | past | the king not said here | man | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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