Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 70
Afterwards, as soon as could be, the vizier's son married the old farmer's daughter; and a most happy marriage it was.
Who acts: son · What happens: marry · To what, where: daughter
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 (son), 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 | Afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 13 married | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Afterwards | punct |
| 3 | as | as | ADV | _ | 4 soon | advmod |
| 4 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 married | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 be | mark |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 be | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 soon | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 married | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 vizier | det |
| 10 | vizier | vizier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 son | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 vizier | case |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 married | nsubj |
| 13 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 farmer | det |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 farmer | amod |
| 16 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 farmer | case |
| 18 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 married | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 marriage | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 marriage | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 marriage | det |
| 22 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 23 happy | advmod |
| 23 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 marriage | amod |
| 24 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 married | obl |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 was | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 marriage | acl:relcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past | the vizier's son | the old farmer's daughter | a happy marriage obl; afterwards, soon property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=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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