Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 133
Gangazara at once showed him the crown that he received from the tiger-king, told him how he got it, and requested his kind assistance to separate the gold and diamonds.
Who acts: Gangazara, Manikkasari · What happens: show, receive, tell, get, request, separate · To what, where: crown, Manikkasari, kind assistance, gold · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gangazara, Manikkasari), 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 | Gangazara | Gangazara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 showed | nsubj |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 once | case |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 showed | obl |
| 4 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 showed | iobj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 crown | det |
| 7 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 showed | obj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 received | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 received | nsubj |
| 10 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 showed | advcl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 king | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 13 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 king | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 tiger | punct |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 received | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 told | punct |
| 17 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 showed | parataxis |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 told | iobj |
| 19 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 got | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 got | nsubj |
| 21 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 told | ccomp |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 got | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 requested | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 requested | cc |
| 25 | requested | request | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 told | conj |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 assistance | nmod:poss |
| 27 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 assistance | amod |
| 28 | assistance | assistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 requested | obj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 separate | mark |
| 30 | separate | separate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 requested | advcl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 gold | det |
| 32 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 separate | obj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 diamonds | cc |
| 34 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 gold | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past | Gangazara | the crown | Manikkasari | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient crown=Topic | |||
| 2 | receive | past | Manikkasari | from the tiger king | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from king=Source | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | Manikkasari | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | get | past | Manikkasari | crown | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | request | past | Manikkasari's kind assistance | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent assistance=Recipient | |||||
| 6 | separate | to-infinitive | the gold and diamonds | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Patient | |||||
| 7 | assist | Manikkasari | nom assistance «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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