Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 11
He became a great favourite, and in due time succeeded to the throne, and ruled the country for many, many years in peace and happiness.
Who acts: prince · What happens: become, succeed, rule · To what, where: great favourite, country
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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 became | nsubj |
| 2 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 favourite | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 favourite | amod |
| 5 | favourite | favourite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 became | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 succeeded | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 succeeded | cc |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 9 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 time | amod |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 succeeded | obl |
| 11 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 became | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 throne | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 throne | det |
| 14 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 succeeded | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ruled | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 ruled | cc |
| 17 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 became | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 country | det |
| 19 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ruled | obj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 years | case |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 years | amod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 many | punct |
| 23 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 years | amod |
| 24 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 ruled | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 peace | case |
| 26 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 years | nmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 happiness | cc |
| 28 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 peace | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | prince | a great favourite | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | succeed | participle | prince not said here | time | to the throne | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | rule | past | prince not said here | the country | year | vn dub-29.3.2 «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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