Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 94
He seated him by himself, saying, "O Prince, I return thanks that you have come here and become my son-in-law; I am very happy at this, and I make over my kingdom to you."
Who acts: King, thanks · What happens: seat, say, return, come, become, be · To what, where: father, Prince, son, this, you, kingdom · 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 (King, thanks), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 seated | nsubj |
| 2 | seated | seat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 seated | obj |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 himself | case |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 seated | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 saying | punct |
| 7 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 seated | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 return | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 return | punct |
| 10 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 11 Prince | discourse |
| 11 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 return | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 return | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 return | nsubj |
| 14 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 saying | ccomp |
| 15 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 return | obj |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 come | nsubj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 come | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 come | aux |
| 19 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 thanks | acl:relcl |
| 20 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 come | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 become | cc |
| 22 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 return | conj |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 son | nmod:poss |
| 24 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 become | xcomp |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 law | punct |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 law | case |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 in | punct |
| 28 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 son | nmod |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 happy | punct |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 happy | nsubj |
| 31 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 happy | cop |
| 32 | very | very | ADV | _ | 33 happy | advmod |
| 33 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 seated | parataxis |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 this | case |
| 35 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 happy | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 make | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 make | cc |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 make | nsubj |
| 39 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 seated | parataxis |
| 40 | over | over | ADP | _ | 42 kingdom | case |
| 41 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 42 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 make | obl |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 you | case |
| 44 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 make | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seated | punct |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 seated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seat | past | King | father | by King | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | King not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | return in a quote | present | King | Prince | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come in a quote | present · perfect | thanks | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | become in a quote | infinitive | King not said here | my son in law | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | King | this | happy property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | make in a quote | present | King | you | my kingdom | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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