Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 86
The newly married Prince went to his tigers, and told his tigers and hounds to kill and bring in a great number of gazelles and hog-deer and markhor.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: marry, go, tell, kill, bring · To what, where: tigers, great number · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Prince), 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 | 3 married | det |
| 2 | newly | newly | ADV | _ | 3 married | advmod |
| 3 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 married | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 tigers | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 tigers | nmod:poss |
| 8 | tigers | tiger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 told | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 told | cc |
| 11 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 married | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 tigers | nmod:poss |
| 13 | tigers | tiger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 told | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 hounds | cc |
| 15 | hounds | hound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 tigers | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 kill | mark |
| 17 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 told | ccomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 bring | cc |
| 19 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 kill | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 number | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 number | det |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 number | amod |
| 23 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bring | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 gazelles | case |
| 25 | gazelles | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 number | nmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 deer | cc |
| 27 | hog | hog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 deer | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 hog | punct |
| 29 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 gazelles | conj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 markhor | cc |
| 31 | markhor | markhor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 gazelles | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past | newly property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | past | Prince | to prince's tigers | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tiger=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | prince's tigers and hounds | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent tiger=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | kill not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | bring | infinitive | a great number of gazelles and hog deer and markhor | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=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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