Indian Fairy Tales, X. the Soothsayer's Son., sentence 13

It was possibly from an early form of this collection that Richard Coeur de Lion got the story, and used it to rebuke the ingratitude of the English nobles on his return in 1195.

Who acts: story, Richard · What happens: be, get, use, rebuke, return · To what, where: early form, story, ingratitude

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, X. the Soothsayer's Son.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, Richard), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 form	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 form	cop
3	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	7 form	advmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 form	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 form	det
6	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 form	amod
7	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 collection	case
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 collection	det
10	collection	collection	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 form	nmod
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 got	mark
12	Richard	Richard	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 got	nsubj
13	Coeur	Coeur	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Richard	flat
14	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Richard	flat
15	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Richard	flat
16	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 form	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 story	det
18	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 got	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 used	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 used	cc
21	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 got	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 used	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 rebuke	mark
24	rebuke	rebuke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 used	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 ingratitude	det
26	ingratitude	ingratitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rebuke	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 nobles	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 nobles	det
29	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 nobles	amod
30	nobles	noble	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 ingratitude	nmod
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 return	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 return	nmod:poss
33	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 nobles	nmod
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 1195	case
35	1195	1195	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	33 return	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 form	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	story		a early form	of this collection; possibly property	tree rules
2	get	past	Richard	the story			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus
3	use	past	Richard not said here	story			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	rebuke	to-infinitive	Richard not said here	the ingratitude of the English nobles on Richard's return in 1195			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ingratitude=Theme
5	return		Richard				nom return «communication intransitive»: 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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