Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 52
The king sent for the prince to the old woman's house, and his servants brought the Raja's son to the king's court-house to the king.
Who acts: king, servants · What happens: send, bring · To what, where: house, son, court house
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 (king, servants), 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 | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 prince | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 prince | det |
| 6 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 house | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 woman | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 woman | amod |
| 10 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 house | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 woman | case |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 brought | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 brought | cc |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 servants | nmod:poss |
| 16 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 brought | nsubj |
| 17 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Raja | det |
| 19 | Raja | Raja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 son | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 Raja | case |
| 21 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 brought | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 house | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 king | det |
| 24 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 house | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 king | case |
| 26 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 house | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 court | punct |
| 28 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 brought | obl |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 king | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 king | det |
| 31 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 brought | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the king | the old woman's house | for the prince | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to house=Destination | |||
| 2 | bring | past | prince's servants | the Raja's son | the king's court house | to the king | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent son=Theme to house=Destination |
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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