Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 76
And the king henceforth refrained himself, and became a man of few words.
Who acts: king · What happens: refrain, become · To what, where: king, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 refrained | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 refrained | nsubj |
| 4 | henceforth | henceforth | ADV | _ | 5 refrained | advmod |
| 5 | refrained | refrain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 refrained | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 became | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 became | cc |
| 9 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 refrained | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 became | xcomp |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 words | case |
| 13 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 words | amod |
| 14 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 man | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 refrained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refrain | past | the king | king | henceforth property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | become | past | the king not said here | a man of few words | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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