Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 47

Balna told her son what Punchkin had said; but at the same time implored him to give up all idea of getting the parrot.

Who acts: Balna, idea · What happens: tell, say, implore, give up, get · To what, where: son, Punchkin, idea, parrot · 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, idea), 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 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 son	nmod:poss
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	iobj
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 said	obj
6	Punchkin	Punchkin	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	aux
8	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 told	ccomp
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 implored	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 implored	cc
11	at	at	ADP	_	14 time	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 time	det
13	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 time	amod
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 implored	obl
15	implored	implore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 implored	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 give	mark
18	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 implored	xcomp
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 give	compound:prt
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 idea	det
21	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 give	obj
22	of	of	SCONJ	_	23 getting	mark
23	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 idea	acl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 parrot	det
25	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 getting	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Balna		wife's son		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent son=Recipient clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		Punchkin			vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme what=Manner
3	implore	past	Balna not said here	son		time	vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	give up	to-infinitive	Balna not said here	all idea			vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Source
5	get	gerund	all idea not said here	the parrot			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer parrot=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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