Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 102

The King's delight at this promise knew no bounds, and he gave orders for appropriate festivities to be prepared against the coming event throughout the length and breadth of the land.

Who acts: delight, King · What happens: know, give, prepare, come, delight · To what, where: bounds, orders, promise

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (delight, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 delight	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 King	case
4	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 knew	nsubj
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 promise	case
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 promise	det
7	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 delight	nmod
8	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 bounds	det
10	bounds	bound	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 knew	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gave	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 gave	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 gave	nsubj
14	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 knew	conj
15	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 gave	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 festivities	case
17	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 festivities	amod
18	festivities	festivity	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 gave	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	21 prepared	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 prepared	aux:pass
21	prepared	prepare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 festivities	acl
22	against	against	ADP	_	25 event	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 event	det
24	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 event	amod
25	event	event	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 prepared	obl
26	throughout	throughout	ADP	_	28 length	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 length	det
28	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 prepared	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 breadth	cc
30	breadth	breadth	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 length	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 land	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 land	det
33	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 length	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	the King's delight at this promise	no bounds				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer bound=Stimulus
2	give	past	delight	orders			for appropriate festivities	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent order=Theme for festivity=Asset
3	prepare	to-infinitive · passive	delight not said here			throughout the length of the land and breadth	against the coming event	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»
4	come	gerund						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	delight		the King		this promise			nom delight «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent at=place

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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