Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 82
He spoke to the pot and spoon, also, and the most delicious dishes of food were provided for them.
Who acts: house · What happens: speak, provide · To what, where: delicious dishes · 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 (house), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 spoke | nsubj |
| 2 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 pot | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pot | det |
| 5 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spoke | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 spoon | cc |
| 7 | spoon | spoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pot | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 also | punct |
| 9 | also | also | ADV | _ | 2 spoke | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 provided | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 provided | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 dishes | det |
| 13 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 14 delicious | advmod |
| 14 | delicious | delicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 dishes | amod |
| 15 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 provided | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 food | case |
| 17 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dishes | nmod |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 provided | aux:pass |
| 19 | provided | provide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 spoke | parataxis |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 provided | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | house | to the pot and spoon | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to pot=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | provide | past · passive | the delicious dishes of food | for pot | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for they=Beneficiary |
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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