Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 110

The prince asked her to show it to him, and when he had read it gave her a parwana for the amount, and rode on.

Who acts: prince, paper · What happens: ask, show, read, give, ride on · To what, where: scrap, paper, prince, parwana

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 (prince, paper), 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	2 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asked	nsubj
3	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 asked	iobj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 show	mark
6	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 asked	xcomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 show	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 show	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 gave	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 gave	cc
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 read	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 read	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 read	aux
15	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 gave	advcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 gave	nsubj
17	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asked	conj
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 gave	iobj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 parwana	det
20	parwana	parwana	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gave	obj
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 amount	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 amount	det
23	amount	amount	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gave	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 rode	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 rode	cc
26	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asked	conj
27	on	on	ADP	_	26 rode	compound:prt
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	the prince		scrap		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	show not said to happen	to-infinitive	the prince not said here	paper	prince		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to he=Recipient
3	read	past · perfect	prince				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	give	past	paper	a parwana	scrap	for the amount	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent she=Recipient parwana=Theme for amount=Asset
5	ride on	past	the prince not said here				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

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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