Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 97
Still, when he came down, the king would not give him his daughter. "
Who acts: king · What happens: come down, not give · To what, where: daughter
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), 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 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 12 give | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Still | punct |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 came | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 give | advcl |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 give | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 give | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 give | advmod |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 give | iobj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 15 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 give | iobj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 give | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come down | past | king | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not give | would | the king | king's daughter | still | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient daughter=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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