Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 82

When he came to years of discretion, and had attained the measure of sixteen years, the King said to him:

Who acts: king · What happens: come, attain, say, measure · To what, where: measure, man, sixteen years · 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), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 said	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 years	case
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 discretion	case
7	discretion	discretion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 years	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 attained	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 attained	cc
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 attained	aux
11	attained	attain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 came	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 measure	det
13	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 attained	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 years	case
15	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 years	nummod
16	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 measure	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 King	det
19	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 said	nsubj
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 said	obl
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	come	past	king			year	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	attain	past · perfect	king not said here	the measure of sixteen years			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent measure=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the King		man		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
4	measure			sixteen years			nom measure «act transitive»: of=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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