Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 101

Here, take this," he continued, scribbling a few lines on some paper, and then handing it to her, "and give it to the king.

Who acts: you, Bhagawant · What happens: take, continue, scribble, hand, give · To what, where: this, few lines, paper, mother, king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Bhagawant), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 take	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Here	punct
3	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 take	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 continued	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 continued	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 continued	nsubj
8	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 take	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 scribbling	punct
10	scribbling	scribble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 continued	advcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 lines	det
12	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 lines	amod
13	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 scribbling	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 paper	case
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 paper	det
16	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lines	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 handing	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 handing	cc
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 handing	advmod
20	handing	hand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 scribbling	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 handing	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 her	case
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 handing	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 handing	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 scribbling	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 give	cc
27	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 take	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 give	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 king	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 king	det
31	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 give	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	this		here		vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent this=Theme clause=Attribute
2	continue in a quote	past	Bhagawant					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	scribble in a quote	gerund	Bhagawant not said here	a few lines		some paper		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent line=Theme on paper=Destination
4	hand in a quote	gerund	Bhagawant not said here	paper	mother		then	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to she=Destination
5	give	infinitive	you not said here	paper	the king			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to king=Recipient

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/101/