Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 26
Of course they at once gave him the cat and took the money.
What happens: give, take · To what, where: cat, fellow, money
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: 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 3 they | case |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Of | fixed |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gave | obl |
| 4 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 6 gave | mark |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 gave | advmod |
| 6 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gave | iobj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cat | det |
| 9 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 took | cc |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gave | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 money | det |
| 13 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the cat | fellow | of rupees = rupee; once property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient cat=Theme | |||
| 2 | take | past | the money | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme |
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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