Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 60
Report of his arrival reached the ears of the king, who came with rope-tied hands and haltered neck to do him homage.
Who acts: Report, king, prince · What happens: reach, come, tie, halter, do, report · To what, where: ears, neck, prince, arrival
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 (Report, 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 | Report | report | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reached | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 arrival | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 arrival | nmod:poss |
| 4 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Report | nmod |
| 5 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ears | det |
| 7 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 reached | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 king | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ears | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 king | acl:relcl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 hands | case |
| 15 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tied | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 rope | punct |
| 17 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 hands | amod |
| 18 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 came | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 haltered | cc |
| 20 | haltered | halter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 came | conj |
| 21 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 haltered | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 do | mark |
| 23 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 haltered | xcomp |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 do | obj |
| 25 | homage | homage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 do | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | Report of prince's arrival | the ears of the king | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ear=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the king | with tied hands | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tie | participle | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | halter | past | the king not said here | neck | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | the king not said here | prince | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | report | prince's arrival | nom report «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | arrive | prince | nom arrival «act 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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