Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 57
The prince remained at the palace for more than a year, and then asked permission to visit his own country, which was granted.
Who acts: prince, permission · What happens: remain, ask, visit, grant · To what, where: palace, permission, own 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, permission), 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 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 remained | nsubj |
| 3 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 palace | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 palace | det |
| 6 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 remained | obl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 year | case |
| 8 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 11 year | advmod |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 more | fixed |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 year | det |
| 11 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 remained | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 asked | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 asked | advmod |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 remained | conj |
| 16 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 visit | mark |
| 18 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 asked | xcomp |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 country | nmod:poss |
| 20 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 country | amod |
| 21 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 visit | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 granted | punct |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 granted | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 granted | aux:pass |
| 25 | granted | grant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 country | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | the prince | the palace | year | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at palace=Location | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the prince not said here | permission | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent permission=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | visit not said to happen | to-infinitive | permission not said here | prince's own country | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | grant | past · passive | prince's own country | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme |
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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