Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 2

No one knew who the tiny boy was, but everybody liked him, and he was so full of funny tricks and antics, so merry and bright, that he was sure to be rewarded by some girdle-cakes, a handful of parched grain, or some sweetmeats.

Who acts: one, tiny boy, everybody, boy · What happens: know, be, like, reward, parch · To what, where: boy, sweetmeats · 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 (one, tiny boy, everybody, boy), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knew	nsubj
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	3 knew	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boy	det
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boy	amod
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 who	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 who	cop
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 liked	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 liked	cc
11	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	12 liked	nsubj
12	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knew	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 liked	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 full	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 full	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 full	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 full	cop
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 full	advmod
19	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 knew	parataxis
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 tricks	case
21	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 tricks	amod
22	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 full	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 antics	cc
24	antics	antic	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 tricks	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 merry	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 merry	advmod
27	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 full	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 bright	cc
29	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 merry	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 sure	punct
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 sure	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 sure	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 sure	cop
34	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 merry	parataxis
35	to	to	PART	_	37 rewarded	mark
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 rewarded	aux:pass
37	rewarded	reward	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 sure	ccomp
38	by	by	ADP	_	42 cakes	case
39	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	42 cakes	det
40	girdle	girdle	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 cakes	compound
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 girdle	punct
42	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 rewarded	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 handful	punct
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 handful	det
45	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 cakes	appos
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 grain	case
47	parched	parch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	48 grain	amod
48	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 handful	nmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 sweetmeats	punct
50	or	or	CCONJ	_	52 sweetmeats	cc
51	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	52 sweetmeats	det
52	sweetmeats	sweetmeat	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 rewarded	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	no one			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	the tiny boy			tree rules
3	like	past	everybody	boy		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
4	is	past	boy		of funny tricks and antics; full property	tree rules
5	be		boy not said here			tree rules
6	is	past	boy		sure property	tree rules
7	reward	to-infinitive · passive	boy not said here	some sweetmeats	by some girdle cakes	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»
8	parch	participle				vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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