Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 117
A great many Kings, Rajas, and their sons accepted this invitation and came.
Who acts: great many Kings · What happens: accept, come · To what, where: invitation
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great many Kings), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 Kings | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Kings | amod |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Kings | amod |
| 4 | Kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 accepted | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Rajas | punct |
| 6 | Rajas | raja | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Kings | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 accepted | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 accepted | cc |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 sons | nmod:poss |
| 10 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 accepted | nsubj |
| 11 | accepted | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 invitation | det |
| 13 | invitation | invitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 accepted | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 came | cc |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 accepted | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 accepted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accept | past | a great many Kings and Rajas | this invitation | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent invitation=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | a great many Kings and Rajas not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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