Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 68

Then the prince told his father all that had happened to him, and how he had been saved several times by attending to the advice that he had purchased from the Brahmani.

Who acts: prince, that · What happens: tell, happen, save, attend, purchase · To what, where: father, prince, advice, Brahmani · 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, that), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 told	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 prince	det
3	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 father	nmod:poss
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	iobj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 happened	det:predet
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 happened	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 happened	aux
10	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 told	ccomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 happened	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 saved	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 saved	cc
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 saved	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 saved	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 saved	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 saved	aux:pass
19	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 happened	conj
20	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 times	amod
21	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 saved	obl:unmarked
22	by	by	SCONJ	_	23 attending	mark
23	attending	attend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 saved	advcl
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 advice	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 advice	det
26	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 attending	obl
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 purchased	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 purchased	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 purchased	aux
30	purchased	purchase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 advice	acl:relcl
31	from	from	ADP	_	33 Brahmani	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Brahmani	det
33	Brahmani	Brahmani	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 purchased	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the prince		prince's father		then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent father=Recipient clause=Topic
2	happen	past · perfect	that		prince				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	save	past · perfect · passive		prince			time		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	attend	gerund						to the advice	vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to advice=Theme
5	purchase	past · perfect	prince	the advice not said here		the Brahmani			vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent advice=Theme from brahmani=Source

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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