Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 99

When the King came home, he was furious at hearing his youngest wife, the gardener's daughter, had given him a stone instead of the beautiful little son she had promised him.

Who acts: King, wife · What happens: come, be, hear, give, promise · To what, where: youngest wife, stone, King, beautiful little son

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 (King, wife), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 furious	advcl
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 furious	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 furious	cop
9	furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	at	at	SCONJ	_	11 hearing	mark
11	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 furious	advcl
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 wife	nmod:poss
13	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 wife	amod
14	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hearing	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 daughter	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 gardener	det
17	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 daughter	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 gardener	case
19	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wife	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 given	punct
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 given	aux
22	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 furious	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 given	iobj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 stone	det
25	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 given	obj
26	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	31 son	case
27	of	of	ADP	_	26 instead	fixed
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 son	det
29	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 son	amod
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 son	amod
31	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 given	obl
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 promised	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 promised	aux
34	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 son	acl:relcl
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 promised	iobj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 furious	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	the King			home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	King			furious property	tree rules
3	hear	gerund	King not said here	King's youngest wife and the gardener's daughter			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus
4	give	past · perfect	King not said here	a stone	King	instead the beautiful little son	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient stone=Theme
5	promise speech: promise	past · perfect	wife	the beautiful little son not said here	King		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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