Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 110
The two men came forward, and, politely accosting them, begged them to come and stay at their house for the night. "
Who acts: two men · What happens: come forward, accost, beg, come, stay · To what, where: men, house
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two men), 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 | 3 men | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 men | nummod |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 accosting | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 accosting | cc |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 and | punct |
| 9 | politely | politely | ADV | _ | 10 accosting | advmod |
| 10 | accosting | accost | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 came | advcl |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 accosting | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 begged | punct |
| 13 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 begged | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 come | mark |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 begged | xcomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 stay | cc |
| 18 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 come | conj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 house | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 house | nmod:poss |
| 21 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stay | obl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 night | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 night | det |
| 24 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stay | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come forward | past | the two men | forward property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | accost | gerund | the two men not said here | men = man | politely property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | beg speech: request | past | the two men not said here | men = man | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | come not said to happen | to-infinitive | the two men not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | stay | infinitive | the two men not said here | men's house | night | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at house=Location |
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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