Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 69
Whereupon the king expressed his sorrow for having sent him away, and all was joy and peace again.
Who acts: king · What happens: express, send away, be, sorrow · To what, where: sorrow, king, joy
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 | Whereupon | whereupon | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 expressed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 expressed | nsubj |
| 4 | expressed | express | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sorrow | nmod:poss |
| 6 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 expressed | obj |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 sent | mark |
| 8 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 sent | aux |
| 9 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 expressed | advcl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sent | obj |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 sent | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 expressed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 joy | cc |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 joy | det |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 joy | cop |
| 16 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 expressed | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 peace | cc |
| 18 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 joy | conj |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 expressed | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 expressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | express | past | the king | king's sorrow | again | whereupon property | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sorrow=Theme | ||
| 2 | send away | gerund · perfect | the king not said here | king | away property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | is a | past | the king not said here | all joy and peace | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sorrow | king | nom sorrow «feeling 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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