Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 64
Now the King had heard much of the mysterious son of seven Queens, and his marvellous wealth, so he gladly accepted the invitation; but what was his astonishment when on entering the palace he found it was a facsimile of his own in every particular!
Who acts: King, palace · What happens: hear, accept, be, enter, find · To what, where: much, invitation, astonishment, palace, particular, facsimile
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, palace), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | aux |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 heard | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 son | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 son | det |
| 9 | mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 son | amod |
| 10 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 much | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Queens | case |
| 12 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 Queens | nummod |
| 13 | Queens | queen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 son | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wealth | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 wealth | cc |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 wealth | nmod:poss |
| 17 | marvellous | marvellous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 wealth | amod |
| 18 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 accepted | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 accepted | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 accepted | nsubj |
| 22 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 23 accepted | advmod |
| 23 | accepted | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 invitation | det |
| 25 | invitation | invitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 accepted | obj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 astonishment | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 astonishment | cc |
| 28 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 31 astonishment | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 astonishment | cop |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 astonishment | nmod:poss |
| 31 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obl |
| 32 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 34 entering | advmod |
| 33 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 34 entering | mark |
| 34 | entering | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 astonishment | acl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 palace | det |
| 36 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 entering | obj |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 found | nsubj |
| 38 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 palace | acl:relcl |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 facsimile | nsubj |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 facsimile | cop |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 facsimile | det |
| 42 | facsimile | facsimile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 entering | parataxis |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 own | case |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 own | nmod:poss |
| 45 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 facsimile | nmod |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 particular | case |
| 47 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 48 particular | det |
| 48 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 entering | obl |
| 49 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · perfect | the King | much of the mysterious son of seven Queens | now | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | accept | past | King | the invitation | gladly property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent invitation=Theme | |||
| 3 | is a | past | King's astonishment | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | enter | gerund | the palace | every particular | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme palace=Destination | ||||
| 5 | find | past | King | the palace not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Topic | ||||
| 6 | is a | past | palace | a facsimile | of King's own | 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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