Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 95
So speaking, it gave the Brahman a costly pearl and disappeared.
Who acts: blow · What happens: speak, give, disappear · To what, where: costly pearl, Brahman · 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 (blow), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 speaking | advmod |
| 2 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 gave | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 speaking | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Brahman | det |
| 7 | Brahman | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 pearl | det |
| 9 | costly | costly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 pearl | amod |
| 10 | pearl | pearl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 disappeared | cc |
| 12 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gave | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | gerund | blow not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | give | past | blow | a costly pearl | the Brahman | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent brahman=Recipient pearl=Theme | |||
| 3 | disappear | past | blow not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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