Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 115
Then the prince told his servants to take his finest palanquin and to fetch the gardener's daughter.
Who acts: prince · What happens: tell, take, fetch · To what, where: servants, finest palanquin, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (prince), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 told | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | nsubj |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 servants | nmod:poss |
| 6 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 told | iobj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 take | mark |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 told | xcomp |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 palanquin | nmod:poss |
| 10 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 palanquin | amod |
| 11 | palanquin | palanquin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 fetch | cc |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 fetch | mark |
| 14 | fetch | fetch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 take | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 gardener | det |
| 16 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 gardener | case |
| 18 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fetch | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the prince | prince's servants | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent servant=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | the prince not said here | prince's finest palanquin | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palanquin=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fetch | to-infinitive | the prince not said here | the gardener's daughter | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=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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