Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 35
There the young king received her with the greatest courtesy and respect and began to shew her other toys.
Who acts: young king · What happens: receive, begin, shew · To what, where: princess, other toys
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: who acts (young king), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 received | expl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 king | amod |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 received | nsubj |
| 5 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 received | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 courtesy | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 courtesy | det |
| 9 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 courtesy | amod |
| 10 | courtesy | courtesy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 received | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 respect | cc |
| 12 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 courtesy | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 began | cc |
| 14 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 received | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 shew | mark |
| 16 | shew | shew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 began | xcomp |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 toys | nmod:poss |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 toys | amod |
| 19 | toys | toy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 shew | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past | the young king | princess | there | with the greatest courtesy and respect | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||
| 2 | begin | past | the young king not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | shew | to-infinitive | the young king not said here | princess's other toys | tree rules |
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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