Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 26
By chance (for they both had been excused from obeying this order) the king's son and the vizier's son were also in the company, and passed by in the crowd.
Who acts: chance son · What happens: excuse, obey, be, pass · To what, where: City, order, company
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 (chance 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 chance | case |
| 2 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 son | compound |
| 3 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 excused | punct |
| 4 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 excused | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 excused | nsubj |
| 6 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 excused | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 excused | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 excused | aux:pass |
| 9 | excused | excuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 chance | acl |
| 10 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 11 obeying | mark |
| 11 | obeying | obey | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 excused | advcl |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 order | det |
| 13 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 obeying | obj |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 excused | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 son | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 king | case |
| 18 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 company | nsubj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 son | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 vizier | det |
| 21 | vizier | vizier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 son | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 vizier | case |
| 23 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 son | conj |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 company | cop |
| 25 | also | also | ADV | _ | 28 company | advmod |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 company | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 company | det |
| 28 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 passed | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 passed | cc |
| 31 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 company | acl |
| 32 | by | by | ADP | _ | 35 crowd | case |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 crowd | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 crowd | det |
| 35 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 passed | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 company | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | excuse | past · perfect · passive | City | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | obey | gerund | this order | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the king's chance son and the vizier's son | the company | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | pass | participle | the company not said here | by the crowd | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by crowd=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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