Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 79

Then he built a splendid palace for her and his son, with a great deal of ground about it, and lovely gardens, and gave them great wealth, and heaps of servants to wait on them.

Who acts: medicine · What happens: build, give, wait, deal · To what, where: splendid palace, great wealth, rupees, ground

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 (medicine), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 built	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 built	nsubj
3	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 palace	det
5	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 palace	amod
6	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 built	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 built	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 son	cc
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 son	nmod:poss
11	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 her	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 deal	punct
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 deal	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 deal	det
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 deal	amod
16	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 built	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 ground	case
18	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 deal	nmod
19	about	about	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 ground	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 gardens	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 gardens	cc
23	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 gardens	amod
24	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 built	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 gave	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 gave	cc
27	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 built	conj
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 gave	iobj
29	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 wealth	amod
30	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gave	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 heaps	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 heaps	cc
33	heaps	heap	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 built	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 servants	case
35	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 heaps	nmod
36	to	to	PART	_	37 wait	mark
37	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 built	advcl
38	on	on	ADP	_	39 them	case
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 wait	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 built	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	build	past	medicine	a splendid palace		then	for Laili; with a great deal of ground about ground; lovely gardens obl; heaps of servants obl	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent palace=Product for she=Beneficiary
2	give	past	medicine not said here	great wealth	rupees = rupee			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient wealth=Theme
3	wait	to-infinitive	medicine not said here				on rupees = rupee	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on they=Location
4	deal			ground about ground				nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient

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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