Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 92
The King gave his daughter and the young prince a great many horses, and elephants, and all sorts of presents, and also a great many sepoys to guard them.
Who acts: King · What happens: give, guard, sort · To what, where: great many horses, daughter, horses, presents
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), 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 | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 prince | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 prince | det |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 prince | amod |
| 9 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 daughter | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 horses | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 horses | amod |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 horses | amod |
| 13 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gave | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 elephants | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 elephants | cc |
| 16 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 horses | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sorts | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sorts | cc |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 sorts | det |
| 20 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gave | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 presents | case |
| 22 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 sorts | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 sepoys | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 sepoys | cc |
| 25 | also | also | ADV | _ | 29 sepoys | advmod |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 sepoys | det |
| 27 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 sepoys | amod |
| 28 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 sepoys | amod |
| 29 | sepoys | sepoy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gave | obl |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 guard | mark |
| 31 | guard | guard | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 gave | advcl |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 guard | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the King | a great many horses and elephants | King's daughter and the young prince | all sorts of presents obl; a great many sepoys obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient horse=Theme | ||
| 2 | guard | to-infinitive | the King not said here | horses = horse | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | sort | presents | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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