Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 119
The prince accepted the invitation, and was treated like a prince.
Who acts: prince · What happens: accept, treat · To what, where: invitation
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 (prince), 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 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 accepted | nsubj |
| 3 | accepted | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 invitation | det |
| 5 | invitation | invitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 accepted | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 treated | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 treated | cc |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 treated | aux:pass |
| 9 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 accepted | conj |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 prince | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 prince | det |
| 12 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 treated | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 accepted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accept | past | the prince | the invitation | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent invitation=Theme | ||||
| 2 | treat | past · passive | the prince not said here | like a prince | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient» |
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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