Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 105
And Raja Rasalu hearkened to them, and bade King Sarkap set them at liberty.
Who acts: Raja, King · What happens: hearken, set · To what, where: chains, liberty
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Raja, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 hearkened | cc |
| 2 | Raja | Raja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 hearkened | nsubj |
| 3 | Rasalu | Rasalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Raja | flat |
| 4 | hearkened | hearken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hearkened | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 set | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 set | cc |
| 9 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 King | nmod:desc |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 set | nsubj |
| 11 | Sarkap | Sarkap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 King | flat |
| 12 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hearkened | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 set | obj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 liberty | case |
| 15 | liberty | liberty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 set | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hearkened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hearken | past | Raja | chains = chain | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | set | past | King bade | chains = chain | liberty | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme at liberty=Destination |
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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