Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 122

All the Rajas and kings of the countries round were asked to come to it, and there were great rejoicings.

Who acts: Rajas, great rejoicings · What happens: ask, come, be · To what, where: Rajas, country

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rajas, great rejoicings), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 Rajas	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Rajas	det
3	Rajas	raja	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 asked	nsubj:pass
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 kings	cc
5	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 Rajas	conj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 countries	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 countries	det
8	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 kings	nmod
9	round	round	ADP	_	3 Rajas	nmod
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 asked	aux:pass
11	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 come	mark
13	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 asked	xcomp
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 come	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 were	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 were	cc
18	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 were	expl
19	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 asked	parataxis
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 rejoicings	amod
21	rejoicings	rejoicing	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 were	nsubj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past · passive		all Rajas and kings of the countries		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	come not said to happen	to-infinitive	all Rajas and kings of the countries not said here		country	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to it=Initial_Location
3	be	past	great rejoicings		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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