Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 81
What fate had decreed came to pass in that country, and they were married.
Who acts: fate · What happens: decree, come, pass, marry · To what, where: fate, country, girls
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 (fate), 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 | DET | PronType=Int | 2 fate | det |
| 2 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 decreed | aux |
| 4 | decreed | decree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 fate | acl |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 pass | mark |
| 7 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 came | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 country | case |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 country | det |
| 10 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pass | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 married | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 married | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 married | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 married | aux:pass |
| 15 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 came | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decree | past · perfect | what fate not said here | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | come | past | what fate | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | pass | to-infinitive | what fate not said here | that country | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in country=Location | ||||
| 4 | marry | past · passive | girls = girl | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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