Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 39

When he came near the King's palace, all the King's servants asked him who he was; and as none of them knew him, the gate-keepers would not let him pass in.

Who acts: prince, servants, none, gate keepers · What happens: come, ask, know, not let, pass in · To what, where: palace, prince · 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, servants, none, gate keepers), 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	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 asked	advcl
4	near	near	ADP	_	8 palace	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 King	det
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 palace	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 King	case
8	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 servants	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 King	det
12	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 servants	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 King	case
14	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 asked	nsubj
15	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 asked	iobj
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 asked	obj
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 was	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 who	acl:relcl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 knew	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 knew	cc
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 knew	mark
23	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	26 knew	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 none	nmod
26	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 asked	parataxis
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 knew	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 let	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 keepers	det
30	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 keepers	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 gate	punct
32	keepers	keeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 let	nsubj
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 let	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 let	advmod
35	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 knew	ccomp
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 let	obj
37	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 let	xcomp
38	in	in	ADP	_	37 pass	compound:prt
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	come	past	prince			the King's palace	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near palace=Location
2	ask speech: ask	past	the King's servants		prince		tree rules
3	know	past	none	prince			tree rules
4	not let	would	the gate keepers	prince			tree rules
5	pass in	infinitive	prince not said here				vn occur-48.3-1 «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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