Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 25
But the charioteer of the king of Benares asked him, "Well, have you told all the virtues of your king?"
Who acts: charioteer, king · What happens: ask, tell · To what, where: king, virtues · 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, king), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 asked | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 charioteer | det |
| 3 | charioteer | charioteer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 king | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 charioteer | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Benares | case |
| 8 | Benares | Benares | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 king | nmod |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 asked | iobj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 told | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 told | punct |
| 13 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 17 told | discourse |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Well | punct |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 told | aux |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 told | nsubj |
| 17 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 asked | parataxis |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 virtues | det:predet |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 virtues | det |
| 20 | virtues | virtue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 told | iobj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 king | case |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 king | nmod:poss |
| 23 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 virtues | nmod |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 told | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the charioteer of the king of Benares | king | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present · perfect | king | all virtues of your king | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent virtue=Recipient |
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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