Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 34
What did the King do but bring two slave-girls' sons and present them to the Fakir.
What happens: do, bring, present · To what, where: King do, sons, girls, Fakir
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: 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 do | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 do | compound |
| 5 | do | do | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 bring | cc |
| 7 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 did | conj |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 girls | nummod |
| 9 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 girls | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 slave | punct |
| 11 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sons | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 11 girls | case |
| 13 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 bring | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 present | cc |
| 15 | present | present | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 bring | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 present | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Fakir | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Fakir | det |
| 19 | Fakir | Fakir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 present | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the King do | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent do=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | bring | infinitive | two slave girls's sons | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument son=Destination | |||||
| 3 | present | infinitive | girls = girl | the Fakir | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to fakir=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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