Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 124
The Princess Labam's father gave them a quantity of camels and horses and rupees and servants; and they travelled in great state to the prince's country, where they lived happily.
Who acts: father · What happens: give, travel, live · To what, where: quantity, rejoicings, great state
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 (father), 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 | 3 Labam | det |
| 2 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Labam | compound |
| 3 | Labam | Labam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 father | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Labam | case |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | nsubj |
| 6 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gave | iobj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 quantity | det |
| 9 | quantity | quantity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 camels | case |
| 11 | camels | camel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 quantity | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 horses | cc |
| 13 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 camels | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 rupees | cc |
| 15 | rupees | rupee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 horses | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 servants | cc |
| 17 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 horses | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 travelled | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 travelled | cc |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 travelled | nsubj |
| 21 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gave | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 state | case |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 state | amod |
| 24 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 travelled | obl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 country | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 prince | det |
| 27 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 country | nmod:poss |
| 28 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 27 prince | case |
| 29 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 travelled | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 lived | punct |
| 31 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 33 lived | advmod |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 lived | nsubj |
| 33 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 travelled | conj |
| 34 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 33 lived | advmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the Princess Labam's father | a quantity of camels and horses and rupees and servants | rejoicings = rejoicing | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient quantity=Theme | |||
| 2 | travel | past | father | great state | to the prince's country | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to country=Destination | |||
| 3 | live | past | father | happily property | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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