Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 25

The Malee's wife advised him to fasten the well-known treasure to one of the bouquets he presented to his mother, and trust to her recognising it.

Who acts: wife, Prince, trust · What happens: advise, fasten, know, present, recognise · To what, where: Prince, known treasure, one, bouquets, mother, treasure

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, Prince, trust), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Malee	det
2	Malee	Malee	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 wife	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Malee	case
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 advised	nsubj
5	advised	advise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 advised	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 fasten	mark
8	fasten	fasten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 advised	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 treasure	det
10	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 known	advmod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 well	punct
12	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 treasure	amod
13	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fasten	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 one	case
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 fasten	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 bouquets	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bouquets	det
18	bouquets	bouquet	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 one	nmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 presented	nsubj
20	presented	present	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 bouquets	acl:relcl
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 mother	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 mother	nmod:poss
23	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 presented	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 recognising	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 recognising	cc
26	trust	trust	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 recognising	nsubj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 her	case
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 trust	nmod
29	recognising	recognise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 advised	advcl
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 recognising	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 advised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	advise speech: other	past	the Malee's wife	Prince			vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	fasten not said to happen	to-infinitive	Prince not said here	the known treasure	one of the bouquets		vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent treasure=Patient to one=Co-Patient
3	know	participle				well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	present	past	Prince	the bouquets not said here	Prince's mother		vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent bouquet=Theme to mother=Recipient
5	recognise	gerund	trust to wife	treasure			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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