Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 21
He asked me the name of this country and the name of the king.
Who acts: son · What happens: ask, name · To what, where: name, me, country, king
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 asked | iobj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 name | det |
| 5 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 asked | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 country | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 country | det |
| 8 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 name | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 name | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 name | det |
| 11 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 name | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 king | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 name | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | son | the name of this country and the name of the king | me | tree rules | |||
| 2 | name | this country | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 3 | name | the king | nom name «communication 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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