Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 15

So saying, she gave the lad a piece of broken potsherd, with these words inscribed on it--"Kill the bearer at once, and sprinkle his blood like water!"

Who acts: matter · What happens: say, give, break, inscribe, kill, sprinkle · To what, where: lad, words, potsherd, bearer, blood · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (matter), 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 saying	advmod
2	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 gave	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gave	nsubj
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saying	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lad	det
7	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	obj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 piece	det
9	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 potsherd	case
11	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 potsherd	amod
12	potsherd	potsherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 piece	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 words	punct
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 words	case
15	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	16 words	det
16	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 saying	obl
17	inscribed	inscribe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 words	acl
18	on	on	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 inscribed	obl
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 Kill	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 Kill	punct
22	Kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 saying	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 bearer	det
24	bearer	bearer	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Kill	obj
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 once	case
26	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	22 Kill	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sprinkle	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 sprinkle	cc
29	sprinkle	sprinkle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 saying	ccomp
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 blood	nmod:poss
31	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sprinkle	obj
32	like	like	ADP	_	33 water	case
33	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sprinkle	obl
34	!	!	PUNCT	_	29 sprinkle	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 sprinkle	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	gerund				with this words	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	give	past	matter	the lad			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent lad=Recipient piece=Theme
3	break	participle					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	inscribe	participle		this words not said here	potsherd		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on it=Destination
5	kill in a quote	infinitive		the bearer			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bearer=Theme
6	sprinkle in a quote	infinitive		lad's blood		like water	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent blood=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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