Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 87
Now at that time it happened that the king was seeking for a Brahman to look after a golden temple which he had just had built.
Who acts: it, king, golden temple · What happens: happen, seek, look, have, build · To what, where: golden temple
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 (it, king, golden temple), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 happened | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 happened | obl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 happened | nsubj |
| 6 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 seeking | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seeking | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 seeking | aux |
| 11 | seeking | seek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 happened | advcl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 Brahman | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 Brahman | det |
| 14 | Brahman | brahman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seeking | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 look | mark |
| 16 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 seeking | advcl |
| 17 | after | after | ADP | _ | 20 temple | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 temple | det |
| 19 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 temple | amod |
| 20 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 look | obl |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 had | obj |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 had | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 had | aux |
| 24 | just | just | ADV | _ | 25 had | advmod |
| 25 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 temple | acl:relcl |
| 26 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 had | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | now; time | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seek | past · progressive | the king | for a Brahman | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for brahman=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | the king not said here | after a golden temple | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | have | past · perfect | king | a golden temple | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | build | participle | a golden temple not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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