Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 86
Moved with pity for the man, the merchant advised him to visit the kind and generous king of that country, and offered to accompany him to the court.
Who acts: merchant, man · What happens: move, advise, visit, offer, accompany · To what, where: man, kind king, merchant, court
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 (merchant, man), 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 | Moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 pity | case |
| 3 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Moved | obl |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 man | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Moved | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 advised | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 merchant | det |
| 9 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 advised | nsubj |
| 10 | advised | advise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 man | acl:relcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 advised | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 visit | mark |
| 13 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 advised | xcomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 15 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 king | amod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 generous | cc |
| 17 | generous | generous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 kind | conj |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 visit | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 country | case |
| 20 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 country | det |
| 21 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 king | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 offered | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 offered | cc |
| 24 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 advised | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 accompany | mark |
| 26 | accompany | accompany | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 offered | xcomp |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 accompany | obj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 court | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 court | det |
| 30 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 accompany | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | participle | with pity; for the man | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | advise speech: other | past | the merchant | man | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | visit not said to happen | to-infinitive | man not said here | the kind king of that country | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | offer | participle | the merchant not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | accompany not said to happen | to-infinitive | the merchant not said here | merchant | the court | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to court=Destination |
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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