Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 78
On his name-day they asked 800 Brahmans, having satisfied them with all their desires, about his lucky marks.
Who acts: laughing, king · What happens: ask, have, desire, mark
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 (laughing, king), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 5 day | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 day | nmod:poss |
| 3 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 day | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 name | punct |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 asked | obl |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 asked | nsubj |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | 800 | 800 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 asked | ccomp |
| 9 | Brahmans | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 800 | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 having | punct |
| 11 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 asked | advcl |
| 12 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 having | xcomp |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 satisfied | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 desires | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 desires | det:predet |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 desires | nmod:poss |
| 17 | desires | desire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 having | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 marks | punct |
| 19 | about | about | ADP | _ | 22 marks | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 marks | nmod:poss |
| 21 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 marks | amod |
| 22 | marks | mark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 desires | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | laughing | day | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | have | gerund | laughing not said here | with laughing's desires and king's lucky marks; satisfied property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | desire | laughing | nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | mark | king | nom mark «cognition transitive»: poss=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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