Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 18

They told him it was because the King's only daughter refused to marry; so when her father died there would be no heir to the throne.

Who acts: inhabitants, King, it, father · What happens: tell, be, not marry, die · To what, where: son, daughter, heir · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (inhabitants, King, it, father), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 refused	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 refused	cop
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 refused	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 King	det
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 daughter	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 daughter	cop
10	only	only	ADV	_	11 daughter	advmod
11	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 refused	nsubj
12	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	ccomp
13	to	to	PART	_	14 marry	mark
14	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 refused	xcomp
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 died	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	20 died	advmod
17	when	when	SCONJ	_	20 died	mark
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 father	nmod:poss
19	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 died	nsubj
20	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	conj
21	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 died	advmod
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 heir	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 heir	cop
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 heir	det
25	heir	heir	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 died	obl
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 throne	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 throne	det
28	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 died	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	inhabitants = inhabitant		son			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	is a	present	the King	daughter				tree rules
3	is	past	it				refuse property	tree rules
4	not marry	to-infinitive						vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	die	past	matter's father			there	to the throne	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	is a	would		no heir				tree rules

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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