Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 19
The old minister was dismayed at the state of the king and soothed him by telling him that he would at once set out to fetch the beautiful girl.
What happens: dismay, soothe, tell, set out, fetch · To what, where: old minister, state, minister, beautiful girl · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Eighth Key.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree 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 minister | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 minister | amod |
| 3 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dismayed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dismayed | aux:pass |
| 5 | dismayed | dismay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 state | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 state | det |
| 8 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dismayed | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 king | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 state | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 soothed | cc |
| 13 | soothed | soothe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dismayed | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 soothed | obj |
| 15 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 16 telling | mark |
| 16 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 soothed | advcl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 telling | iobj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 set | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 set | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 set | aux |
| 21 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 23 set | mark |
| 22 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 23 set | advmod |
| 23 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 telling | ccomp |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 set | compound:prt |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 fetch | mark |
| 26 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 set | advcl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 girl | det |
| 28 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 girl | amod |
| 29 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fetch | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dismayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dismay | past · passive | the old minister | the state of the king | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | soothe | past | minister | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | gerund | minister | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | set out | would · passive | minister | once property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | fetch | to-infinitive | the beautiful girl | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=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: «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (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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