Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 32
Then what did the King do but place those two sons in an underground room, which he had built in the earth.
Who acts: King · What happens: do, build · To what, where: two sons, underground room, earth
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 what | advmod |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 do | nsubj |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 what | acl:relcl |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 place | cc |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 do | conj |
| 9 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 sons | det |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 sons | nummod |
| 11 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 do | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 room | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 room | det |
| 14 | underground | underground | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 room | amod |
| 15 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sons | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 built | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 built | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 built | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 built | aux |
| 20 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 room | acl:relcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 earth | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 earth | det |
| 23 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 built | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · do-support | the King | that two sons | a underground room | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | build | past · perfect · passive | a underground room | the earth | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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