Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 20
The King, in despair, had ordered every man who entered the city gates to be led before the Princess; so, much to the lad's impatience, for he was in an immense hurry to find his mothers' eyes, he was dragged into the presence-chamber.
Who acts: King, man · What happens: order, enter, lead, be, find, drag · To what, where: man, city gates, immense hurry, eyes, King, presence chamber
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 (King, man), 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 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 ordered | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 despair | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 despair | case |
| 5 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 King | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 King | punct |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ordered | aux |
| 8 | ordered | order | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 man | det |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ordered | obj |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 entered | nsubj |
| 12 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 man | acl:relcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 gates | det |
| 14 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gates | compound |
| 15 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 entered | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 led | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 led | aux:pass |
| 18 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 gates | acl |
| 19 | before | before | ADP | _ | 21 Princess | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Princess | det |
| 21 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 led | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 impatience | punct |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 impatience | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 impatience | punct |
| 25 | much | much | ADV | _ | 30 impatience | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 impatience | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 lad | det |
| 28 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 impatience | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 lad | case |
| 30 | impatience | impatience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ordered | parataxis |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 hurry | punct |
| 32 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 38 hurry | mark |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 hurry | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 hurry | cop |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 hurry | case |
| 36 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 hurry | det |
| 37 | immense | immense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 hurry | amod |
| 38 | hurry | hurry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ordered | parataxis |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 find | mark |
| 40 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 hurry | acl |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 mothers | nmod:poss |
| 42 | mothers | mother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 43 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 42 mothers | case |
| 44 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 find | obj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 dragged | punct |
| 46 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 dragged | nsubj |
| 47 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 dragged | aux:pass |
| 48 | dragged | drag | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 ordered | conj |
| 49 | into | into | ADP | _ | 53 chamber | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 chamber | det |
| 51 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 chamber | compound |
| 52 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 51 presence | punct |
| 53 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 dragged | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past · perfect | the King | every man | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | ||||
| 2 | enter | past | every man | the city gates | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme gate=Destination | ||||
| 3 | lead | to-infinitive · passive | every man not said here | the city gates not said here | before the Princess | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: before princess=Destination | |||
| 4 | is | past | King | a immense hurry | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | find | to-infinitive | the King not said here | man's mothers's eyes | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Topic | ||||
| 6 | drag | past · passive | King | the presence chamber | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=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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