Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 76
The young man stayed there a few days, during which he received the Raja's right-hand ring, and the pot and spoon, in recognition of His Highness's gratitude to him for having delivered his son.
Who acts: young man, man · What happens: stay, receive, deliver, recognize · To what, where: hand ring, pot, gratitude
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 (young man, man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stayed | nsubj |
| 4 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 stayed | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 days | det |
| 7 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 days | amod |
| 8 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stayed | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 received | punct |
| 10 | during | during | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 received | obl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 received | nsubj |
| 13 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stayed | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Raja | det |
| 15 | Raja | Raja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 ring | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 Raja | case |
| 17 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hand | amod |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 right | punct |
| 19 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ring | compound |
| 20 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 received | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 delivered | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 delivered | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 pot | det |
| 24 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 delivered | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 spoon | cc |
| 26 | spoon | spoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 pot | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 recognition | punct |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 recognition | case |
| 29 | recognition | recognition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 delivered | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 gratitude | case |
| 31 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 Highness | nmod:poss |
| 32 | Highness | highness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 gratitude | nmod:poss |
| 33 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 32 Highness | case |
| 34 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 recognition | nmod |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 him | case |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 gratitude | nmod |
| 37 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 38 having | mark |
| 38 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 delivered | aux |
| 39 | delivered | deliver | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 stayed | conj |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 son | nmod:poss |
| 41 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 delivered | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | the young man | there | day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | receive | past | man | the Raja's hand ring | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme | ||||
| 3 | deliver | gerund · perfect · passive | the pot and spoon | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary son=Patient | |||||
| 4 | recognize | Raja's Highness's gratitude to Raja | nom recognition «state 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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