Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 114
His Majesty came, and seeing the fakir so solemn and earnest in his devotions, he was afraid to rouse his anger, lest peradventure the displeasure of Heaven should descend on him, and so he placed his hands together in the attitude of a supplicant, and asked, "How did you get my daughter's necklace?"
Who acts: Majesty, fakir, displeasure, you, king · What happens: come, see, be, rouse, descend, place · To what, where: fakir, anger, hands, attitude, necklace, Heaven · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Majesty, fakir, displeasure, you), 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 | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 earnest | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 earnest | cc |
| 6 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 earnest | csubj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fakir | det |
| 8 | fakir | fakir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seeing | obj |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 solemn | advmod |
| 10 | solemn | solemn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 earnest | amod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 earnest | cc |
| 12 | earnest | earn | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 came | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 devotions | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 devotions | nmod:poss |
| 15 | devotions | devotion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 earnest | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 afraid | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 afraid | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 afraid | cop |
| 19 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 came | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 rouse | mark |
| 21 | rouse | rouse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 afraid | xcomp |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 anger | nmod:poss |
| 23 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rouse | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 descend | punct |
| 25 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 32 descend | mark |
| 26 | peradventure | peradventure | ADV | _ | 28 displeasure | advmod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 displeasure | det |
| 28 | displeasure | displeasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 descend | nsubj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Heaven | case |
| 30 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 displeasure | nmod |
| 31 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 descend | aux |
| 32 | descend | descend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 rouse | conj |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 him | case |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 descend | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 placed | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 placed | cc |
| 37 | so | so | ADV | _ | 39 placed | advmod |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 placed | nsubj |
| 39 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 hands | nmod:poss |
| 41 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 placed | obj |
| 42 | together | together | ADV | _ | 39 placed | advmod |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 attitude | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 attitude | det |
| 45 | attitude | attitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 placed | obl |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 supplicant | case |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 supplicant | det |
| 48 | supplicant | supplicant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 attitude | nmod |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 asked | punct |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 asked | cc |
| 51 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 get | punct |
| 53 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 57 get | punct |
| 54 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 57 get | advmod |
| 55 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 57 get | aux |
| 56 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 57 get | nsubj |
| 57 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 51 asked | ccomp |
| 58 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 59 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 59 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 61 necklace | nmod:poss |
| 60 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 59 daughter | case |
| 61 | necklace | necklace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 get | obj |
| 62 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 57 get | punct |
| 63 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 57 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | king's Majesty | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | gerund | the fakir | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fakir=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | is | past | fakir | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | rouse | to-infinitive | fakir not said here | fakir's anger | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anger=Patient | ||||
| 5 | descend | should | the displeasure of Heaven | on fakir | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | place | past | fakir | fakir's hands | the attitude of a supplicant | together property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in attitude=Destination | ||
| 7 | ask speech: ask | past | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 8 | get in a quote | past · do-support | you | my daughter's necklace | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer necklace=Stimulus | ||||
| 9 | devote | king | nom devotion «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 10 | anger | fakir | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 11 | displease | Heaven | nom displeasure «feeling 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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