Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 56
When he heard this the king was very glad, and bade the prince to abide in his palace, and appointed him his successor to the throne.
Who acts: king · What happens: hear, be, abide, appoint · To what, where: this, palace, king · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 heard | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 glad | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 glad | cop |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 glad | advmod |
| 9 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 heard | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bade | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bade | cc |
| 12 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 glad | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 prince | det |
| 14 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bade | appos |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 abide | mark |
| 16 | abide | abide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 prince | acl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 palace | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 palace | nmod:poss |
| 19 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 abide | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 appointed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 appointed | cc |
| 22 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 glad | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 appointed | obj |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 successor | nmod:poss |
| 25 | successor | successor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 appointed | obj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 throne | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 throne | det |
| 28 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 appointed | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | king | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the king | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | abide | to-infinitive | the king not said here | king's palace | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | appoint | past | the king not said here | king | to the throne | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme successor=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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