Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 4
The marriage soon took place, and then after a few weeks the king gave them presents of horses and elephants, and jewels and rich cloths, and bade them start for their own land; for he was sure that the king would now receive them.
Who acts: marriage, king, jewels · What happens: take, give, start, be, receive · To what, where: place, presents, them, jewels
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 (marriage, king, jewels), 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 marriage | det |
| 2 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 took | advmod |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gave | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 gave | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 gave | advmod |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 weeks | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 weeks | det |
| 11 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 weeks | amod |
| 12 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 gave | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | nsubj |
| 15 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 gave | iobj |
| 17 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 gave | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 horses | case |
| 19 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 presents | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 elephants | cc |
| 21 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 horses | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 start | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 start | cc |
| 24 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 start | nsubj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 cloths | cc |
| 26 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 cloths | amod |
| 27 | cloths | cloth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 jewels | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 bade | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 bade | cc |
| 30 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 jewels | conj |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 bade | obj |
| 32 | start | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | parataxis |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 land | case |
| 34 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 land | nmod:poss |
| 35 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 land | amod |
| 36 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 start | obl |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 sure | punct |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 sure | case |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 sure | nsubj |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 sure | cop |
| 41 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 took | conj |
| 42 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 47 receive | mark |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 king | det |
| 44 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 receive | nsubj |
| 45 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 receive | aux |
| 46 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 47 receive | advmod |
| 47 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 sure | ccomp |
| 48 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 receive | obj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the marriage | place | soon property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | |||
| 2 | give | past | the king | presents of horses and elephants | them = they | then; week | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient present=Theme | ||
| 3 | start | present | jewels and rich cloths and bade | for jewels's own land | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | is | past | king | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | receive | would | the king | jewels = jewel | now | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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