Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 27
The King took the sweetmeats and put them in his bosom.
Who acts: King · What happens: take, put, bosom · To what, where: sweetmeats, bosom
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19. 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 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sweetmeats | det |
| 5 | sweetmeats | sweetmeat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 put | cc |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | conj |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 put | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 bosom | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 bosom | nmod:poss |
| 11 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the King | the sweetmeats | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweetmeat=Theme | ||||
| 2 | put | infinitive | the King not said here | sweetmeats = sweetmeat | King's bosom | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in bosom=Destination | |||
| 3 | bosom | King | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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