Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 63
Then, when all was prepared, she bade her husband give a grand feast to the King.
Who acts: witch · What happens: prepare, bid, give · To what, where: all, husband, grand feast, King
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 (witch), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7128:1349): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 bade | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 prepared | punct |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 prepared | advmod |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 prepared | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 prepared | aux:pass |
| 6 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 bade | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 prepared | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 bade | nsubj |
| 9 | bade | bid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 husband | nmod:poss |
| 11 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bade | obj |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 bade | xcomp |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 feast | det |
| 14 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 feast | amod |
| 15 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 give | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 King | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 King | det |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 give | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 bade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prepare | past · passive | all | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | bid | past | witch | witch's husband | then | tree rules | |||
| 3 | give | infinitive | witch not said here | a grand feast | the King | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent feast=Theme to king=Recipient |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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