Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 7

They had only to give the ring to him, and he would speak to it, and the house and beautiful princess would again be with them, and everything would go on as happily as before. "

Who acts: rats, dog, everything · What happens: have, give, speak, be, go on · To what, where: ring, dog · 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 (rats, dog, everything), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 give	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 give	mark
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ring	det
7	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 give	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 speak	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 speak	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 speak	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 speak	aux
14	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 give	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 speak	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 would	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 would	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 house	det
20	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 would	nsubj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 princess	cc
22	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 princess	amod
23	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 house	conj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 had	advcl
25	again	again	ADV	_	28 them	advmod
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 them	cop
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 would	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 go	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 go	cc
31	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	33 go	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 go	aux
33	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	parataxis
34	on	on	ADV	_	33 go	advmod
35	as	as	ADV	_	36 happily	advmod
36	happily	happily	ADV	_	33 go	advmod
37	as	as	ADP	_	38 before	case
38	before	before	ADV	_	36 happily	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 go	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	rats = rat					tree rules
2	give	to-infinitive	rats = rat not said here	the ring	dog			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent ring=Theme to he=Recipient
3	speak speech: other	would	dog		ring			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to it=Co-Agent
4	is	infinitive				again	with house	tree rules
5	go on	would	everything				happily property	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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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