Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 63

On leaving he told her how she and her husband had treated him at his first visit, and how he had escaped; and then gave them two elephants, two beautiful horses, fifteen soldiers, and ten lacs rupees' worth of jewels.

Who acts: prince, ten lacs · What happens: leave, tell, treat, escape, give, worth · To what, where: sister, first visit, two elephants, husbands · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, ten lacs), 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 leaving	mark
2	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 told	advcl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 treated	advmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 treated	nsubj:pass
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 treated	cc
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 husband	nmod:poss
10	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 treated	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 treated	aux
12	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 told	ccomp
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 treated	obj
14	at	at	ADP	_	17 visit	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 visit	nmod:poss
16	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 visit	amod
17	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 treated	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 escaped	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 escaped	cc
20	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	23 escaped	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 escaped	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 escaped	aux
23	escaped	escape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 told	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 gave	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 gave	cc
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 gave	advmod
27	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 gave	iobj
29	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 elephants	nummod
30	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 gave	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 horses	punct
32	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 horses	nummod
33	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 horses	amod
34	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 elephants	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 soldiers	punct
36	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 soldiers	nummod
37	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 elephants	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 worth	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 worth	cc
40	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 lacs	nummod
41	lacs	lac	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 worth	nsubj
42	rupees	rupee	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 worth	nmod:poss
43	'	's	PART	_	42 rupees	case
44	worth	worth	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gave	parataxis
45	of	of	ADP	_	46 jewels	case
46	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 worth	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	gerund	prince not said here						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	prince		sister				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	treat	past · perfect · passive		sister		prince's first visit			tree rules
4	escape	past · perfect	prince						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	give	past	prince not said here	two elephants and two beautiful horses and fifteen soldiers	husbands = husband		then		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient elephant=Theme
6	worth		ten lacs					of jewels	tree rules
7	visit		prince						nom visit «act transitive»: poss=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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