Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Schacabac., sentence 3
He then gave him an empty plate, and asked him how he liked his rice-soup.
Who acts: Schacabac · What happens: give, ask, like · To what, where: empty plate, Barmecide, Schacabac, rice soup
This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Schacabac.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Schacabac), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 gave | advmod |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 plate | det |
| 6 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 plate | amod |
| 7 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 asked | cc |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | parataxis |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 asked | iobj |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 liked | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 liked | nsubj |
| 14 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 asked | advcl |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 soup | nmod:poss |
| 16 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 soup | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 rice | punct |
| 18 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 liked | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Schacabac | a empty plate | Barmecide | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient plate=Theme | ||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Schacabac | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | like | past | Schacabac | Schacabac's rice soup | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot soup=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: «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Project Gutenberg book 62868 (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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