Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 66
The king had the pit dug, and commanded all the maids belonging to the palace to try to jump it.
Who acts: king, maids · What happens: have, command, belong, try, jump · To what, where: pit dug, maids, dug · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, maids), 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 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dug | det |
| 5 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dug | compound |
| 6 | dug | dug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 commanded | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 commanded | cc |
| 9 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 maids | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 maids | det |
| 12 | maids | maid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 commanded | obj |
| 13 | belonging | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 maids | acl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 palace | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 palace | det |
| 16 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 belonging | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 try | mark |
| 18 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 belonging | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 jump | mark |
| 20 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 try | xcomp |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 jump | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the king | the pit dug | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dug=Patient | ||||
| 2 | command | past | the king not said here | all maids | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent maid=Theme | ||||
| 3 | belong | gerund | all maids not said here | to the palace | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | try | to-infinitive | all maids not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | jump not said to happen | to-infinitive | all maids not said here | dug | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory |
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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