Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 65

The king, taking the future Buddha, went to the place, surrounded by his courtiers; and looking at the tortoise, he asked the Bodisat, "Teacher! how comes he to be fallen here?"

Who acts: king, Tortoise · What happens: take, go, surround, look, ask, come · To what, where: future Buddha, place, Bodisat, Tortoise · Speech: someone speaks here

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, Tortoise), 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	9 went	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 taking	punct
4	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 king	acl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Buddha	det
6	future	future	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Buddha	amod
7	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 taking	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 king	punct
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 place	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 place	det
12	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 surrounded	punct
14	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 place	acl
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 courtiers	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 courtiers	nmod:poss
17	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 surrounded	obl:agent
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 looking	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 looking	cc
20	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 went	advcl
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 tortoise	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 tortoise	det
23	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 looking	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 asked	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 asked	nsubj
26	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 comes	csubj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Bodisat	det
28	Bodisat	Bodisat	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 asked	iobj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 Teacher	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 Teacher	punct
31	Teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Bodisat	appos
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	26 asked	punct
33	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	34 comes	advmod
34	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 went	parataxis
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 fallen	nsubj
36	to	to	PART	_	38 fallen	mark
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 fallen	aux:pass
38	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 comes	obl
39	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 fallen	advmod
40	?	?	PUNCT	_	34 comes	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	gerund	the king not said here		the future Buddha			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument buddha=Destination
2	go	past	the king				to the place	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	surround	participle		the place not said here				vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
4	look	gerund	the king not said here				at the tortoise	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at tortoise=Theme
5	ask speech: ask	past	Tortoise		the Bodisat			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bodisat=Recipient
6	come in a quote	present						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	fall in a quote	to-infinitive · passive		Tortoise		here		vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: subject=Result

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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