Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 121
The king went back to the palace, and at once ordered the princess's back to be examined.
Who acts: king · What happens: go back, order, examine · To what, where: back
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 (king), 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 | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 palace | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 palace | det |
| 7 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ordered | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ordered | cc |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 once | case |
| 11 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 12 ordered | obl |
| 12 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 princess | det |
| 14 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 back | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 princess | case |
| 16 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ordered | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 examined | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 examined | aux:pass |
| 19 | examined | examine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 ordered | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | the king | to the palace result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result | ||||
| 2 | order | past | the princess's back | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent back=Theme at once=Asset | |||||
| 3 | examine | to-infinitive · passive | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP» |
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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