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Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 34

The lad, nothing loth, gave her the pigeon; whereupon, as before, she bade him go ask her mother for the cow, and gave him a potsherd whereon was written--"Kill this lad without fail, and sprinkle his blood like water!"

Who acts: lad, thirteen · What happens: give, bade, go, ask, write, kill · To what, where: pigeon, thirteen, lad, mother, potsherd, 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 (lad, 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

detnsubjpunctapposamodpunctiobjdetobjpunctconjpunctcaseadvmodpunctnsubjconjobjxcompxcompnmod:possobjcasedetoblpunctccconjiobjdetobjadvmodaux:passadvclpunctpunctparataxisdetobjcaseoblpunctccparataxisnmod:possobjcaseoblpunctpunctrootTheDETladNOUN,PUNCTnothingPRONlothADJ,PUNCTgaveVERBherPRONtheDETpigeonNOUN;PUNCTwhereuponADV,PUNCTasADPbeforeADV,PUNCTshePRONbadeVERBhimPRONgoVERBaskVERBherPRONmotherNOUNforADPtheDETcowNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJgaveVERBhimPRONaDETpotsherdNOUNwhereonADVwasAUXwrittenVERB--PUNCT"PUNCTKillVERBthisDETladNOUNwithoutADPfailNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJsprinkleVERBhisPRONbloodNOUNlikeADPwaterNOUN!PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 laddet
2ladladNOUNNumber=Sing7 gavensubj
3,,PUNCT_4 nothingpunct
4nothingnothingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Neg2 ladappos
5lothlothADJDegree=Pos4 nothingamod
6,,PUNCT_2 ladpunct
7gavegiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
8hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 gaveiobj
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 pigeondet
10pigeonpigeonNOUNNumber=Sing7 gaveobj
11;;PUNCT_12 whereuponpunct
12whereuponwhereuponADVPronType=Int7 gaveconj
13,,PUNCT_18 badepunct
14asasADP_15 beforecase
15beforebeforeADV_18 badeadvmod
16,,PUNCT_18 badepunct
17sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs18 badensubj
18badebadeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 gaveconj
19himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs18 badeobj
20gogoVERBVerbForm=Inf18 badexcomp
21askaskVERBVerbForm=Inf20 goxcomp
22herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs23 mothernmod:poss
23mothermotherNOUNNumber=Sing21 askobj
24forforADP_26 cowcase
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 cowdet
26cowcowNOUNNumber=Sing21 askobl
27,,PUNCT_29 gavepunct
28andandCCONJ_29 gavecc
29gavegiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 gaveconj
30himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 gaveiobj
31aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art32 potsherddet
32potsherdpotsherdNOUNNumber=Sing29 gaveobj
33whereonwhereonADVPronType=Int35 writtenadvmod
34wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin35 writtenaux:pass
35writtenwriteVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass29 gaveadvcl
36----PUNCT_38 Killpunct
37""PUNCT_38 Killpunct
38KillkillVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Fin35 writtenparataxis
39thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem40 laddet
40ladladNOUNNumber=Sing38 Killobj
41withoutwithoutADP_42 failcase
42failfailNOUNNumber=Sing38 Killobl
43,,PUNCT_45 sprinklepunct
44andandCCONJ_45 sprinklecc
45sprinklesprinkleVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Fin7 gaveparataxis
46hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs47 bloodnmod:poss
47bloodbloodNOUNNumber=Sing45 sprinkleobj
48likelikeADP_49 watercase
49waterwaterNOUNNumber=Sing45 sprinkleobl
50!!PUNCT_45 sprinklepunct
51""PUNCT_45 sprinklepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1givepastthe ladthe pigeonthirteentree rules
2badepastthirteenladbefore propertytree rules
3goinfinitivethirteen not said herevn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4ask speech: askinfinitivethirteen not said herethirteen's motherfor the cowvn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient
5givepastthe lad not said herea potsherdladvn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient potsherd=Theme
6writepast · passivethe lad not said herewhereon propertyvn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: clause=Topic
7kill in a quoteinfinitivethis ladwithout failvn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lad=Theme
8sprinkle in a quoteinfinitivelad's bloodlike watervn 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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