Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 15
And when he had arrived at that conclusion, he asked that charioteer what the age of the king of Kosala was.
Who acts: charioteer, that, age · What happens: arrive, ask, charioteer, be · To what, where: conclusion · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (charioteer, that, age), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 asked | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 arrived | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 arrived | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 arrived | aux |
| 5 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 asked | advcl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 conclusion | case |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 conclusion | det |
| 8 | conclusion | conclusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arrived | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 arrived | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 charioteer | nsubj |
| 13 | charioteer | charioteer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 was | obj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 age | det |
| 16 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 was | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 king | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 king | det |
| 19 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 age | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Kosala | case |
| 21 | Kosala | Kosala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 king | nmod |
| 22 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 charioteer | ccomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past · perfect | charioteer | that conclusion | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | charioteer | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | charioteer | present | that | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | be | past | the age of the king of Kosala | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=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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