Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 138
And so the princess and the boy were married with great pomp and splendour: her father and mother were quite content with her choice; and the Kings, the Rajas and their sons, all returned to their homes.
Who acts: father, all · What happens: marry, be, return · To what, where: princess, quite content, Kings, homes
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 (father, all), 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 | _ | 9 married | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 married | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 princess | det |
| 4 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 married | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 boy | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 boy | det |
| 7 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 princess | conj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 married | aux:pass |
| 9 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 pomp | case |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 pomp | amod |
| 12 | pomp | pomp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 married | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 splendour | cc |
| 14 | splendour | splendour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pomp | conj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 father | punct |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 father | nmod:poss |
| 17 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 content | nsubj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 mother | cc |
| 19 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 father | conj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 content | cop |
| 21 | quite | quite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 content | amod |
| 22 | content | content | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pomp | acl:relcl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 choice | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 choice | nmod:poss |
| 25 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 content | nmod |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 Kings | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 Kings | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Kings | det |
| 29 | Kings | King | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 married | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Rajas | punct |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Rajas | det |
| 32 | Rajas | raja | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 Kings | nmod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 sons | cc |
| 34 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 sons | nmod:poss |
| 35 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 Rajas | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 returned | punct |
| 37 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 returned | nsubj |
| 38 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 Kings | acl:relcl |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 homes | case |
| 40 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 homes | nmod:poss |
| 41 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 returned | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past · passive | the princess and the boy | with great pomp and splendour | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | princess's father and mother | quite content | with princess's choice | tree rules | |||
| 3 | return | past | all | the Kings the Rajas and Rajas's sons not said here | Rajas's homes | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent king=Theme to home=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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