Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 137
Accordingly they did this; the prince wrote the letter at the vizier's son's dictation.
Who acts: exiles, prince, son · What happens: do, write, dictate · To what, where: this, letter, dictation
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 (exiles, prince, 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 | Accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 3 did | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 did | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 wrote | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prince | det |
| 7 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wrote | nsubj |
| 8 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 letter | det |
| 10 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wrote | obj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 dictation | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 vizier | det |
| 13 | vizier | vizier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 son | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 vizier | case |
| 15 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dictation | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 son | case |
| 17 | dictation | dictation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wrote | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | exiles = exile | this | accordingly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | write | past | the prince | the letter | the vizier's son's dictation | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme | |||
| 3 | dictate | the vizier's son | nom dictation «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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