Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 28

The lad, however, was only too glad to get any at all, so he hurried home as fast as he could to his seven mothers, and gave two eyes apiece to the six elder Queens; but to the youngest he gave one, saying, "Dearest little mother!--I will be your other eye always!"

Who acts: lad · What happens: be, get, hurry, give, say · To what, where: any, all, two eyes, one, youngest, other eye · 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 (lad), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lad	det
2	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 glad	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 lad	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	9 glad	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 glad	cop
7	only	only	ADV	_	9 glad	advmod
8	too	too	ADV	_	9 glad	advmod
9	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 get	mark
11	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 glad	advcl
12	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 get	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 all	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 any	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 hurried	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	18 hurried	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 hurried	nsubj
18	hurried	hurry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 glad	parataxis
19	home	home	ADV	_	18 hurried	advmod
20	as	as	ADV	_	21 fast	advmod
21	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 hurried	advmod
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 could	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 could	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 fast	advcl
25	to	to	ADP	_	28 mothers	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 mothers	nmod:poss
27	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 mothers	nummod
28	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 could	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 gave	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 gave	cc
31	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 hurried	conj
32	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 eyes	nummod
33	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 gave	obj
34	apiece	apiece	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 gave	xcomp
35	to	to	ADP	_	39 Queens	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Queens	det
37	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 Queens	nummod
38	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 Queens	amod
39	Queens	queen	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 apiece	obl
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 gave	punct
41	but	but	CCONJ	_	46 gave	cc
42	to	to	ADP	_	44 youngest	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 youngest	det
44	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	46 gave	obl
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 gave	nsubj
46	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 glad	conj
47	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	46 gave	obj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 saying	punct
49	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	46 gave	advcl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 mother	punct
51	"	"	PUNCT	_	54 mother	punct
52	Dearest	dear	ADJ	Degree=Sup	54 mother	amod
53	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 mother	amod
54	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 saying	ccomp
55	!	!	PUNCT	_	54 mother	punct
56	--	--	PUNCT	_	62 eye	punct
57	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	62 eye	nsubj
58	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	62 eye	aux
59	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	62 eye	cop
60	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	62 eye	nmod:poss
61	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 eye	amod
62	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 glad	appos
63	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	62 eye	advmod
64	!	!	PUNCT	_	62 eye	punct
65	"	"	PUNCT	_	62 eye	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the lad				glad, however property	tree rules
2	get	to-infinitive	the lad not said here	any		all		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent any=Theme at all=Asset
3	hurry	past	lad				fast, home property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	give	past	lad not said here	two eyes			apiece property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
5	give	past	lad	one	the youngest			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Theme to young=Recipient
6	say speech: express	gerund	lad not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	is a in a quote	future	lad	your other eye			always property	tree rules

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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