Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 74
So at last, just to please them, she beat it, and the King stood before her.
Who acts: wedding, King · What happens: please, beat, stand · To what, where: drums, hunting
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wedding, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 last | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 last | case |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 please | punct |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 please | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 please | mark |
| 7 | please | please | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 last | parataxis |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 please | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 beat | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 beat | nsubj |
| 11 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 please | parataxis |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 beat | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stood | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 stood | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 King | det |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 stood | nsubj |
| 17 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 beat | conj |
| 18 | before | before | ADP | _ | 19 her | case |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 stood | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 last | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | please | to-infinitive | drums = drum | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | beat | past | wedding | hunting | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | the King | before wedding | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before she=Location |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/22/74/