Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 96
He sent one of his servants, therefore, to ask whose camp it was.
Who acts: prince · What happens: send, ask · To what, where: one, camp
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 sent | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 servants | case |
| 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 | 3 one | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 therefore | punct |
| 8 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 2 sent | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ask | punct |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 ask | mark |
| 11 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 sent | parataxis |
| 12 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 13 camp | nmod:poss |
| 13 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ask | obj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 was | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 camp | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | prince | one of prince's servants | therefore property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | camp | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent camp=Recipient |
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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