Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 58
The king gave him elephants, horses, jewels, and abundance of money for the expenses of the way and as presents for his father, and the prince started.
Who acts: king, prince · What happens: give, start · To what, where: elephants, prince
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, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gave | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 horses | punct |
| 7 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 elephants | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 jewels | punct |
| 9 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 elephants | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 abundance | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 abundance | cc |
| 12 | abundance | abundance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 money | case |
| 14 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 abundance | nmod |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 expenses | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 expenses | det |
| 17 | expenses | expense | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gave | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 way | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 way | det |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 expenses | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 presents | cc |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 presents | case |
| 23 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 way | conj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 father | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 father | nmod:poss |
| 26 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 presents | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 started | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 started | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 prince | det |
| 30 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 started | nsubj |
| 31 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the king | elephants and horses and jewels | prince | for the expenses of the way and presents for prince's father; abundance of money obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient elephant=Theme for expense=Asset | ||
| 2 | start | past | the prince | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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