Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 17

Then he inquired about the extent of his kingdom, and about his army, and his wealth, and his renown, and about the country he lived in, and his caste and tribe and family.

Who acts: age · What happens: inquire, live in, extend · To what, where: renown, caste, kingdom

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 (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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 inquired	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 inquired	nsubj
3	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 extent	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 extent	det
6	extent	extent	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 inquired	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 kingdom	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 kingdom	nmod:poss
9	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 extent	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 army	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 army	cc
12	about	about	ADP	_	14 army	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 army	nmod:poss
14	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 inquired	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wealth	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 wealth	cc
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 wealth	nmod:poss
18	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 army	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 renown	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 renown	cc
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 renown	nmod:poss
22	renown	renown	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 inquired	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 lived	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 lived	cc
25	about	about	ADP	_	27 country	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 country	det
27	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lived	obl
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 lived	nsubj
29	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 inquired	conj
30	in	in	ADV	_	29 lived	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 caste	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 caste	cc
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 caste	nmod:poss
34	caste	caste	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lived	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 tribe	cc
36	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 caste	conj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 family	cc
38	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 caste	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 inquired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	inquire speech: other	past	age	age's renown	then	about the extent of age's kingdom; about age's army and age's wealth	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about extent=Topic
2	live in	past	age	age's caste and tribe and family		about the country	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about country=Location
3	extend			age's kingdom			nom extent «state transitive»: of=patient

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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