Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 12
Then the king of his own accord brought a covered pitcher into which he had thrown a frog, and said to Harisarman, "Brahman, if you can guess what there is in this pitcher, I will do you great honour to-day."
Who acts: king, Harisarman · What happens: bring, cover, throw, say, guess, be · To what, where: covered pitcher, frog, Harisarman, great honour · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, Harisarman), 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 | 8 brought | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brought | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 accord | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 accord | nmod:poss |
| 6 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 accord | amod |
| 7 | accord | accord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 king | nmod |
| 8 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 pitcher | det |
| 10 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 pitcher | amod |
| 11 | pitcher | pitcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brought | obj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 which | case |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 thrown | obl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 thrown | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 thrown | aux |
| 16 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 pitcher | acl:relcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 frog | det |
| 18 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thrown | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 said | cc |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 brought | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 Harisarman | case |
| 23 | Harisarman | Harisarman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 said | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Brahman | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 Brahman | punct |
| 26 | Brahman | brahman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Harisarman | appos |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 guess | punct |
| 28 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 31 guess | mark |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 guess | nsubj |
| 30 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 guess | aux |
| 31 | guess | guess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 said | parataxis |
| 32 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 34 is | obj |
| 33 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 34 is | expl |
| 34 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 guess | ccomp |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 pitcher | case |
| 36 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 pitcher | det |
| 37 | pitcher | pitcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 is | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 do | punct |
| 39 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 do | nsubj |
| 40 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 do | aux |
| 41 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 guess | conj |
| 42 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 41 do | iobj |
| 43 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 honour | amod |
| 44 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 do | obj |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 47 day | case |
| 46 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 45 to | punct |
| 47 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 do | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 guess | punct |
| 49 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 guess | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | the king of king's own accord | a covered pitcher | then | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent pitcher=Theme | |||
| 2 | cover | participle | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | throw | past · perfect | king | a frog | a covered pitcher | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer frog=Theme into which=Result | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the king of king's own accord not said here | Harisarman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to harisarman=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | guess a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | can | Harisarman | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | be in a quote | present | there | in this pitcher | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot what=Theme in pitcher=Attribute | ||||
| 7 | do in a quote | future | the king of king's own accord = king | great honour | Harisarman | day | 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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