Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 6
He agreed to do so, and succeeded in obtaining their pardon.
Who acts: king, jewels · What happens: agree, do, succeed, obtain, pardon · To what, where: pardon
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 agreed | nsubj |
| 2 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 do | mark |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 agreed | xcomp |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 do | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 succeeded | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 succeeded | cc |
| 8 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 agreed | conj |
| 9 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 10 obtaining | mark |
| 10 | obtaining | obtain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 succeeded | advcl |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 pardon | nmod:poss |
| 12 | pardon | pardon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 obtaining | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | king | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | king not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | succeed | past | king not said here | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | obtain | gerund | king not said here | jewels's pardon | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pardon=Theme | ||||
| 5 | pardon | jewels = jewel | nom pardon «act 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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