The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 65

She was to give him half the rice in exchange for the kernel of a sweet red kaki fruit which he had just eaten.

Who acts: pilgrim, sweet red kaki fruit · What happens: give, eat · To what, where: rice, Monkey, exchange

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pilgrim, sweet red kaki fruit), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 give	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
3	to	to	PART	_	4 give	mark
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 give	iobj
6	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	8 rice	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rice	det
8	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 exchange	case
10	exchange	exchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obl
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 kernel	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 kernel	det
13	kernel	kernel	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 exchange	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	19 fruit	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 fruit	det
16	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 fruit	amod
17	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 fruit	amod
18	kaki	kaki	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fruit	compound
19	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 kernel	nmod
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 eaten	nsubj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 eaten	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 eaten	aux
23	just	just	ADV	_	24 eaten	advmod
24	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 fruit	acl:relcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	pilgrim	half rice	Monkey	exchange for the kernel of a sweet red kaki fruit			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient rice=Theme
2	eat	past · perfect	a sweet red kaki fruit						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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