Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 20
His Majesty was much enraged at such audacious wickedness, and swore that most terrible punishment should be visited on the offender if he could be discovered.
What happens: enrage, swear, visit, discover · To what, where: Majesty, such audacious wickedness, most terrible punishment, offender
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: 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Majesty | Majesty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 enraged | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 enraged | aux:pass |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 enraged | advmod |
| 5 | enraged | enrage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 wickedness | case |
| 7 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wickedness | amod |
| 8 | audacious | audacious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wickedness | amod |
| 9 | wickedness | wickedness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 enraged | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 swore | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 swore | cc |
| 12 | swore | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 enraged | parataxis |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 visited | mark |
| 14 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 punishment | amod |
| 15 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 punishment | amod |
| 16 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 visited | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 visited | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 visited | aux:pass |
| 19 | visited | visit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 swore | ccomp |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 offender | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 offender | det |
| 22 | offender | offender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 visited | obl |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 27 discovered | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 discovered | nsubj |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 discovered | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 discovered | aux:pass |
| 27 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 visited | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 enraged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enrage | past · passive | merchant's Majesty | such audacious wickedness | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | swear | past | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | visit | should · passive | most terrible punishment | the offender | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | discover a condition, not said to happen | could · passive | Majesty | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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