Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 77
The handmaiden obeyed the Princess's order, went to him, and sprinkled the scent over him.
Who acts: handmaiden, Princess · What happens: obey, go, sprinkle, order · To what, where: order, handmaiden, scent
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 (handmaiden, Princess), 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 handmaiden | det |
| 2 | handmaiden | handmaiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 obeyed | nsubj |
| 3 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Princess | det |
| 5 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 order | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Princess | case |
| 7 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 obeyed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 obeyed | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sprinkled | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sprinkled | cc |
| 14 | sprinkled | sprinkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 obeyed | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 scent | det |
| 16 | scent | scent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sprinkled | obj |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sprinkled | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 obeyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obey | past | the handmaiden | the Princess's order | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the handmaiden not said here | handmaiden | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | sprinkle | past | the handmaiden not said here | the scent | over handmaiden | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent scent=Theme over he=Destination | |||
| 4 | order | the Princess | nom order «communication 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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