Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 16

Prince Majnun told all this to his father, who told him to do all the old woman had bidden him.

Who acts: Prince, father · What happens: tell, do, bid · To what, where: this, father, prince · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, father), 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	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
2	Majnun	Majnun	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Prince	flat
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 this	det:predet
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 told	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 father	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 father	nmod:poss
8	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 told	nsubj
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 father	acl:relcl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	iobj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 do	mark
14	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 told	xcomp
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 woman	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 woman	det
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 woman	amod
18	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bidden	parataxis
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 bidden	aux
20	bidden	bid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 do	advcl
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 bidden	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Prince	this	prince's father	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Topic to father=Recipient
2	tell speech: assert	past	prince's father		prince	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	prince's father not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	bid	past · perfect	prince's father not said here	prince		tree rules

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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