Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 138
On reading the letter Gulizar's father was much enraged with his viziers and other officials for not discovering the presence in his country of these illustrious visitors, as he was especially anxious to ingratiate himself in the favour of the prince and the vizier's son.
Who acts: letter · What happens: read, enrage, not discover, be, ingratiate, favour · To what, where: letter, father, presence, country, favour, prince
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 (letter), 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 reading | mark |
| 2 | reading | read | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 enraged | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 letter | det |
| 4 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reading | obj |
| 5 | Gulizar | Gulizar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 father | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Gulizar | case |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 enraged | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 enraged | aux:pass |
| 9 | much | much | ADV | _ | 10 enraged | advmod |
| 10 | enraged | enrage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 viziers | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 viziers | nmod:poss |
| 13 | viziers | vizier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 enraged | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 officials | cc |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 officials | amod |
| 16 | officials | official | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 viziers | conj |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 discovering | mark |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 discovering | advmod |
| 19 | discovering | discover | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 enraged | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 presence | det |
| 21 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 discovering | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 country | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 country | nmod:poss |
| 24 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 discovering | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 visitors | case |
| 26 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 28 visitors | det |
| 27 | illustrious | illustrious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 visitors | amod |
| 28 | visitors | visitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 country | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 anxious | punct |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 34 anxious | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 anxious | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 anxious | cop |
| 33 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 34 anxious | advmod |
| 34 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 enraged | parataxis |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 ingratiate | mark |
| 36 | ingratiate | ingratiate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 anxious | csubj |
| 37 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 36 ingratiate | obj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 favour | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 favour | det |
| 40 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 ingratiate | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 prince | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 prince | det |
| 43 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 favour | nmod |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 son | cc |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 vizier | det |
| 46 | vizier | vizier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 son | nmod:poss |
| 47 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 46 vizier | case |
| 48 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 favour | conj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 enraged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | gerund | the letter | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Topic | |||||
| 2 | enrage | past · passive | Gulizar's father | with letter's viziers and other officials | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | not discover | gerund | the presence | letter's country of this illustrious visitors | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent presence=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is | past | letter | anxious, especially property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | ingratiate | to-infinitive | letter | the favour of the prince and the vizier's son | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | favour | the prince | nom favour «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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