Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 107
On reaching her home the Brahmani told her parents of her meeting with her husband, and what a valuable piece of paper he had given her; but not liking to go before the king herself, she sent one of her relations.
Who acts: Brahmani, scrap · What happens: reach, tell, give, not like, go, send · To what, where: home, parents, scrap, one · 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 (Brahmani, scrap), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 reaching | mark |
| 2 | reaching | reach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 told | advcl |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 home | nmod:poss |
| 4 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reaching | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Brahmani | det |
| 6 | Brahmani | Brahmani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 told | nsubj |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 parents | nmod:poss |
| 9 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 told | iobj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 meeting | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 meeting | nmod:poss |
| 12 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 parents | nmod |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 husband | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 husband | nmod:poss |
| 15 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 meeting | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 given | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 given | cc |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 26 given | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 piece | det |
| 20 | valuable | valuable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 piece | amod |
| 21 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 given | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 paper | case |
| 23 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 piece | nmod |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 given | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 given | aux |
| 26 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 told | conj |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 given | obj |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 liking | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 liking | cc |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 liking | advmod |
| 31 | liking | like | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 told | ccomp |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 go | mark |
| 33 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 liking | xcomp |
| 34 | before | before | ADP | _ | 36 king | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 king | det |
| 36 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 go | obl |
| 37 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 33 go | obl:unmarked |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 sent | punct |
| 39 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 sent | nsubj |
| 40 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 liking | parataxis |
| 41 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 40 sent | obj |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 relations | case |
| 43 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 relations | nmod:poss |
| 44 | relations | relation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 one | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | gerund | the Brahmani not said here | scrap's home | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent home=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the Brahmani | scrap's parents of scrap's meeting with scrap's husband | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | give | past · perfect · passive | scrap | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient she=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not like | gerund | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | scrap | before the king | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before king=Location | ||||
| 6 | send | past | scrap | one of scrap's relations | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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