Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 105

The King, to allay their anxiety, promised regard for their wishes, and set out towards the south; but as luck would have it, although he hunted diligently, he found no game.

Who acts: King, hunting · What happens: allay, promise, set out, have, hunt, find · To what, where: anxiety, regard, south, game

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 (King, hunting), 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	5 allay	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 allay	punct
4	to	to	PART	_	5 allay	mark
5	allay	allay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 anxiety	nmod:poss
7	anxiety	anxiety	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 allay	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 promised	punct
9	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 allay	advcl
10	regard	regard	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 promised	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 wishes	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 wishes	nmod:poss
13	wishes	wish	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 promised	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 set	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 set	cc
16	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 allay	conj
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 set	compound:prt
18	towards	towards	ADP	_	20 south	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 south	det
20	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 set	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 have	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 have	cc
23	as	as	ADP	_	24 luck	case
24	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 have	obl
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 have	aux
26	have	have	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 allay	parataxis
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 have	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 hunted	punct
29	although	although	SCONJ	_	31 hunted	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 hunted	nsubj
31	hunted	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 have	parataxis
32	diligently	diligently	ADV	_	31 hunted	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 found	punct
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 found	nsubj
35	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 hunted	conj
36	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	37 game	det
37	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 found	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 allay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	allay	to-infinitive	the King	hunting's anxiety			tree rules
2	promise speech: promise	past	the King not said here	regard		for hunting's wishes goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent regard=Theme for wish=Goal
3	set out	infinitive	the King not said here		the south		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards south=Initial_Location
4	have	would		regard		as luck	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	hunt	past	king			diligently property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	find	past	king	no game			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Topic
7	wish		hunting				nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

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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