Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 90
Yet still the King did not send for him, so he mounted his steed and set off in the pride of his youth and strength to the palace.
Who acts: King, Prince · What happens: not send, mount, set off, pride · To what, where: steed, pride, youth
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, Prince), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 7 send | cc |
| 2 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 send | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 send | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 send | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 send | advmod |
| 7 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 send | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 mounted | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 mounted | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 mounted | nsubj |
| 13 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 send | parataxis |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 steed | nmod:poss |
| 15 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mounted | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 set | cc |
| 17 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 mounted | conj |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 set | compound:prt |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 pride | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 pride | det |
| 21 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 set | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 youth | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 youth | nmod:poss |
| 24 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pride | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 strength | cc |
| 26 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 youth | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 palace | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 palace | det |
| 29 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 set | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not send | past · do-support | the King | still | for Prince | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | mount | past | Prince | Prince's steed | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Patient | ||||
| 3 | set off | past | Prince not said here | the pride of Prince's youth and strength | to the palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | pride | Prince's youth and strength | nom pride «feeling 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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