Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 71
Then the King made a proclamation: "Let all men, great and small, attend to-day in the hall of audience, for the King's daughter will to-day take a husband."
Who acts: King, daughter · What happens: make, let, attend, take · To what, where: proclamation, men, husband
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, daughter), 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 | 4 made | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 proclamation | det |
| 6 | proclamation | proclamation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 Let | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Let | punct |
| 9 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 made | advcl |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 men | det |
| 11 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 Let | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 great | punct |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 men | amod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 small | cc |
| 15 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 great | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 attend | punct |
| 17 | attend | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 Let | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 day | case |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 to | punct |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 attend | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 hall | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 hall | det |
| 23 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 attend | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 audience | case |
| 25 | audience | audience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hall | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 daughter | punct |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 daughter | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 King | det |
| 29 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 30 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 29 King | case |
| 31 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 take | nsubj |
| 32 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 take | aux |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 day | case |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 to | punct |
| 35 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 take | obl |
| 36 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 Let | xcomp |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 husband | det |
| 38 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 take | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the King | a proclamation | then | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proclamation=Product | |||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | the King not said here | all men | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | attend in a quote | infinitive | the King not said here | day | in the hall of audience | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in hall=Theme | |||
| 4 | take in a quote | future | the King's daughter | a husband | day | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument husband=Destination |
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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