Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 9
At length they reached their own country, and when the king saw his son's beautiful wife and his magnificent retinue he was at once reconciled, and ordered him to enter the city and take up his abode there.
Who acts: horses, king, magnificent retinue · What happens: reach, see, reconcile, order, enter, take up · To what, where: own country, length, beautiful wife, king, city, abode
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 (horses, king, magnificent retinue), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 country | nmod:poss |
| 6 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 country | amod |
| 7 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 saw | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 saw | cc |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 saw | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 saw | nsubj |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reached | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 son | nmod:poss |
| 15 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wife | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 son | case |
| 17 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 wife | amod |
| 18 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 saw | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 retinue | cc |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 retinue | nmod:poss |
| 21 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 retinue | amod |
| 22 | retinue | retinue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wife | conj |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 reconciled | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 reconciled | aux:pass |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 once | case |
| 26 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 27 reconciled | obl |
| 27 | reconciled | reconcile | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 retinue | acl:relcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 ordered | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 ordered | cc |
| 30 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reached | parataxis |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 ordered | obj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 enter | mark |
| 33 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 ordered | xcomp |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 city | det |
| 35 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 enter | obj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 take | cc |
| 37 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 enter | conj |
| 38 | up | up | ADP | _ | 37 take | compound:prt |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 abode | nmod:poss |
| 40 | abode | abode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 take | obj |
| 41 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 37 take | advmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | horses = horse | horses's own country | length | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent country=Theme at length=Asset | |||
| 2 | see | past | the king | king's son's beautiful wife and king's magnificent retinue | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | reconcile | past · passive | king's magnificent retinue not said here | king | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | order | past | king | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | enter not said to happen | to-infinitive | the city | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme city=Destination | |||||
| 6 | take up | infinitive | king's abode | there | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent abode=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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