Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 103
So Raja Rasalu was comforted, and began to make ready for fortune.
What happens: comfort, begin, make · To what, where: Raja
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 comforted | advmod |
| 2 | Raja | Raja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 comforted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | Rasalu | Rasalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Raja | flat |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 comforted | aux:pass |
| 5 | comforted | comfort | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 began | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 began | cc |
| 8 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 comforted | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 make | mark |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 began | xcomp |
| 11 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 make | xcomp |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 fortune | case |
| 13 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ready | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 comforted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | comfort | past · passive | Raja | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | begin | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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