Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 104
The King was delighted with this letter, and ordered all the men, women, and children of all castes, fakirs, and sepoys, in his country to go to the prince's camp to a grand feast the prince would give them.
Who acts: King, children · What happens: be, order, go, give · To what, where: men, prince, camp, castes
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, children), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 delighted | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 delighted | cop |
| 4 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 letter | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 letter | det |
| 7 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 delighted | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ordered | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ordered | cc |
| 10 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 delighted | advcl |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 men | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 men | det |
| 13 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ordered | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 women | punct |
| 15 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 men | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 give | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 give | cc |
| 18 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 give | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 castes | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 castes | det |
| 21 | castes | caste | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 children | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fakirs | punct |
| 23 | fakirs | fakir | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 castes | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 sepoys | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 sepoys | cc |
| 26 | sepoys | sepoy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 castes | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 country | punct |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 country | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 country | nmod:poss |
| 30 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 castes | conj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 go | mark |
| 32 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 country | acl |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 camp | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 prince | det |
| 35 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 camp | nmod:poss |
| 36 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 35 prince | case |
| 37 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 go | obl |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 feast | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 feast | det |
| 40 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 feast | amod |
| 41 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 go | obl |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 prince | det |
| 43 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 go | obl:unmarked |
| 44 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 give | aux |
| 45 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 delighted | conj |
| 46 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 give | iobj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the King | with this letter; delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | order | past | the King not said here | all men and women | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | children of all castes and fakirs and sepoys and King's country not said here | the prince | the prince's camp | to a grand feast | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to camp=Initial_Location to feast=Destination | ||
| 4 | give | would | children of all castes and fakirs and sepoys and King's country | castes = caste | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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