Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 94
The prince promised that he would do everything as the vizier's son had advised him; and he kept his promise.
Who acts: prince, son · What happens: promise, do, advise, keep · To what, where: everything, son, promise · 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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 promised | nsubj |
| 3 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 do | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 do | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | aux |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 promised | ccomp |
| 8 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 do | obj |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 advised | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 vizier | det |
| 11 | vizier | vizier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 son | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 vizier | case |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 advised | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 advised | aux |
| 15 | advised | advise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 do | advcl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 advised | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 kept | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 kept | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 kept | nsubj |
| 20 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 promised | conj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 promise | nmod:poss |
| 22 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 kept | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | the prince | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do | would | prince | everything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | advise speech: other | past · perfect · passive | the vizier's son | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | keep | past | son | son's promise | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme | ||||
| 5 | promise | son | nom promise «communication transitive»: 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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