Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 113

In the evening the prince related to his father the meeting with the woman, and the purchase of the piece of paper.

What happens: purchase · To what, where: piece

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: 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 evening	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 evening	det
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 meeting	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 prince	det
5	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 meeting	nsubj
6	related	related	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 meeting	amod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 father	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 father	nmod:poss
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 meeting	compound
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 meeting	det
11	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 woman	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 woman	det
14	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 meeting	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 purchase	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 purchase	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 purchase	det
18	purchase	purchase	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 meeting	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 piece	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 piece	det
21	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 purchase	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 paper	case
23	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 piece	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 meeting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	purchase			the piece of paper					nom purchase «act 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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