Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 61
He most humbly begged him to stay at his palace, and to accept what little hospitality could be provided.
Who acts: prince · What happens: beg, stay, accept, provide · To what, where: Report, palace, little hospitality
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 begged | nsubj |
| 2 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 3 humbly | advmod |
| 3 | humbly | humbly | ADV | _ | 4 begged | advmod |
| 4 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 begged | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 stay | mark |
| 7 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 begged | xcomp |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 palace | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 palace | nmod:poss |
| 10 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stay | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 accept | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 accept | cc |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 accept | mark |
| 14 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 begged | conj |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 provided | obj |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hospitality | amod |
| 17 | hospitality | hospitality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 provided | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 provided | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 provided | aux:pass |
| 20 | provided | provide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 accept | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | prince | Report | humbly property | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | stay not said to happen | to-infinitive | prince not said here | prince's palace | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at palace=Location | ||||
| 3 | accept | to-infinitive | prince not said here | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | provide | could · passive | little hospitality | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary what=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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