Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 26
This stern order, however, was not carried out, as the prince bribed the men and escaped from the country.
Who acts: prince · What happens: not carry out, bribe, escape · To what, where: stern order, men, country
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 (prince), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 order | det |
| 2 | stern | stern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 order | amod |
| 3 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 order | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 9 carried | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 carried | aux:pass |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 carried | advmod |
| 9 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 carried | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bribed | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 bribed | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 prince | det |
| 14 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bribed | nsubj |
| 15 | bribed | bribe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 carried | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 men | det |
| 17 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 bribed | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 escaped | cc |
| 19 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 bribed | conj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 country | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 country | det |
| 22 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 escaped | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not carry out | past · passive | this stern order | however property | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | bribe | past | the prince | the men | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient | ||||
| 3 | escape | past | the prince not said here | the country | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from country=Initial_Location |
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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