Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 29
But pray, then, what is the kind of goodness your king has?"
Who acts: king · What happens: pray, be, have · To what, where: kind
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 (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 | _ | 2 pray | cc |
| 2 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 pray | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 pray | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 kind | punct |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 kind | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 kind | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 kind | det |
| 9 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pray | parataxis |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 goodness | case |
| 11 | goodness | goodness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kind | nmod |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 king | nmod:poss |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 has | nsubj |
| 14 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 kind | parataxis |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 kind | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 kind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | present | then | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | the kind | of goodness | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | present | your king | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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