Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 33
Nevertheless she pretended to be charmed with his success, and told him that if he would give her this pigeon also, she would reward him with the Jogi's wonderful cow, whose milk flows all day long, and makes a pond as big as a kingdom.
Who acts: thirteen, lad, milk · What happens: pretend, charm, tell, give, reward, flow · To what, where: lad, pigeon, thirteen, pond · 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 (thirteen, lad, milk), 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 pretended | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pretended | nsubj |
| 3 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 charmed | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 charmed | aux:pass |
| 6 | charmed | charm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 pretended | xcomp |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 success | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 success | nmod:poss |
| 9 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 charmed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 told | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 told | cc |
| 12 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pretended | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 told | iobj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 give | mark |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 give | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 give | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 give | aux |
| 18 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 told | ccomp |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 give | iobj |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 pigeon | det |
| 21 | pigeon | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 give | obj |
| 22 | also | also | ADV | _ | 18 give | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 reward | punct |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 reward | nsubj |
| 25 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 reward | aux |
| 26 | reward | reward | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 pretended | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 reward | obj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 cow | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Jogi | det |
| 30 | Jogi | Jogi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 cow | nmod:poss |
| 31 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 30 Jogi | case |
| 32 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 cow | amod |
| 33 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 reward | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 flows | punct |
| 35 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 36 milk | nmod:poss |
| 36 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 flows | nsubj |
| 37 | flows | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 reward | parataxis |
| 38 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 day | det |
| 39 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 long | obl:unmarked |
| 40 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 37 flows | advmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 makes | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 makes | cc |
| 43 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 pretended | conj |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 pond | det |
| 45 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 makes | obj |
| 46 | as | as | ADV | _ | 47 big | advmod |
| 47 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 makes | xcomp |
| 48 | as | as | ADP | _ | 50 kingdom | case |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 kingdom | det |
| 50 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 big | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pretended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | past | thirteen | nevertheless property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | charm | to-infinitive · passive | thirteen not said here | with lad's success | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | thirteen not said here | lad | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | give a condition, not said to happen | would | lad | this pigeon | thirteen | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient pigeon=Theme | |||
| 5 | reward | would | thirteen | lad | with the Jogi's wonderful cow | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with cow=Theme | |||
| 6 | flow | present | milk | long property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | make | present | thirteen not said here | a pond | big property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pond=Product |
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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