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Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 134

A letter was sent to the chief vizier telling him of all that had happened to the prince and the vizier's son since they had left their country.

Who acts: chief vizier, helper · What happens: send, tell, happen, leave · To what, where: letter, chief vizier, son, country · 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 (chief vizier, helper), 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

detnsubj:passaux:passcasedetamodoblacliobjcaseoblnsubjauxacl:relclcasedetoblccdetnmod:posscaseconjmarknsubjauxadvclnmod:possobjpunctrootADETletterNOUNwasAUXsentVERBtoADPtheDETchiefADJvizierNOUNtellingVERBhimPRONofADPallDETthatPRONhadAUXhappenedVERBtoADPtheDETprinceNOUNandCCONJtheDETvizierNOUN'sPARTsonNOUNsinceSCONJtheyPRONhadAUXleftVERBtheirPRONcountryNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art2 letterdet
2letterletterNOUNNumber=Sing4 sentnsubj:pass
3wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 sentaux:pass
4sentsendVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
5totoADP_8 viziercase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 vizierdet
7chiefchiefADJDegree=Pos8 vizieramod
8viziervizierNOUNNumber=Sing4 sentobl
9tellingtellVERBVerbForm=Ger8 vizieracl
10himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 tellingiobj
11ofofADP_12 allcase
12allallDETPronType=Tot9 tellingobl
13thatthatPRONPronType=Rel15 happenednsubj
14hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin15 happenedaux
15happenedhappenVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part8 vizieracl:relcl
16totoADP_18 princecase
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 princedet
18princeprinceNOUNNumber=Sing15 happenedobl
19andandCCONJ_23 soncc
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 vizierdet
21viziervizierNOUNNumber=Sing23 sonnmod:poss
22's'sPART_21 viziercase
23sonsonNOUNNumber=Sing18 princeconj
24sincesinceSCONJ_27 leftmark
25theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs27 leftnsubj
26hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin27 leftaux
27leftleaveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part4 sentadvcl
28theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs29 countrynmod:poss
29countrycountryNOUNNumber=Sing27 leftobj
30..PUNCT_4 sentpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1sendpast · passivea letterthe chief viziervn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to vizier=Destination
2tell speech: assertgerundthe chief vizier not said heresonof allvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3happenpast · perfectthe chief vizierto the prince and the vizier's sonvn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4leavepast · perfecthelperhelper's countryvn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=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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