Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 27

Nevertheless she took it off, and gave it him, saying, "There are only thirteen of 'em now, for I lost one last week."

Who acts: bride, thirteen · What happens: take off, give, say, be, lose · To what, where: message, lad · 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 (bride, thirteen), 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	Nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	_	3 took	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	obj
5	off	off	ADP	_	3 took	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 gave	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 gave	cc
8	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gave	obj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gave	iobj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 saying	punct
12	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 gave	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 are	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 are	punct
15	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 are	expl
16	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 saying	ccomp
17	only	only	ADV	_	18 thirteen	advmod
18	thirteen	thirteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 are	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 'em	case
20	'em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 thirteen	nmod
21	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 are	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 lost	punct
23	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 lost	mark
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 lost	nsubj
25	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gave	conj
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 week	nummod
27	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 week	amod
28	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lost	obl:unmarked
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take off	past	bride	message				nevertheless property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	give	past	bride not said here	message	lad				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient it=Theme
3	say speech: assert	gerund	bride not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	be in a quote	present	thirteen of 'em			there	now		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	lose in a quote	past	bride				week		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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