Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 56
On reaching a place on the borders of the king's dominions the prince gave the soldiers some gold, and ordered them to return.
Who acts: prince · What happens: reach, give, order, return · To what, where: place, soldiers, borders
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 (prince), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 2 reaching | mark |
| 2 | reaching | reach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 gave | advcl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 place | det |
| 4 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reaching | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 borders | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 borders | det |
| 7 | borders | border | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 gave | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 dominions | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dominions | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 king | case |
| 12 | dominions | dominion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 gave | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 prince | det |
| 14 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | nsubj |
| 15 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 soldiers | det |
| 17 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 gave | obj |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 gold | det |
| 19 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ordered | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 ordered | cc |
| 22 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 gave | advcl |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 ordered | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 return | mark |
| 25 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 ordered | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | gerund | the prince not said here | a place | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | past | the prince | the soldiers | the borders | of the king's dominions | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent soldier=Recipient gold=Theme on border=Asset | ||
| 3 | order | past | the prince not said here | soldiers = soldier | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | return not said to happen | to-infinitive | the prince not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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