Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 35
Balna determined to take her son's advice; and the next day sent for Punchkin, and spoke to him as had been suggested.
Who acts: Balna · What happens: determine, take, send, speak, suggest · To what, where: advice, next day, son · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Balna), 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 | Balna | Balna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 determined | nsubj |
| 2 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 take | mark |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 determined | xcomp |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 son | nmod:poss |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 advice | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 son | case |
| 8 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 day | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 day | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 day | det |
| 12 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 day | amod |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 determined | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 day | acl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 Punchkin | case |
| 16 | Punchkin | Punchkin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 sent | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 spoke | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 spoke | cc |
| 19 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 determined | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 spoke | obl |
| 22 | as | as | ADV | _ | 25 suggested | advmod |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 suggested | aux |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 suggested | aux:pass |
| 25 | suggested | suggest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 spoke | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 determined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | past | Balna | day | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | Balna not said here | Magician's son's advice | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme | ||||
| 3 | send | participle | the next day not said here | for Punchkin | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | past | son | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent | |||||
| 5 | suggest speech: suggest | past · perfect · passive | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S» |
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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