Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 8

She nearly died of envy and spite, determining to destroy the lad without delay; therefore, sending a servant to bring him to her presence, she asked him if he would sell her the pigeon he had just shot.

Who acts: matter, King, pigeon · What happens: die, determine, destroy, send, bring, ask · To what, where: lad, servant, King, presence, pigeon, matter

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 (matter, King, pigeon), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 died	nsubj
2	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	3 died	advmod
3	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 envy	case
5	envy	envy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 died	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 spite	cc
7	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 envy	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 determining	punct
9	determining	determine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 died	advcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 destroy	mark
11	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 determining	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lad	det
13	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 destroy	obj
14	without	without	ADP	_	15 delay	case
15	delay	delay	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 destroy	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 sending	punct
17	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	19 sending	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sending	punct
19	sending	send	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 died	advcl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 servant	det
21	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sending	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 bring	mark
23	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 sending	advcl
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 bring	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 presence	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 presence	nmod:poss
27	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bring	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 asked	punct
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 asked	nsubj
30	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 died	conj
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 asked	iobj
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 sell	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 sell	nsubj
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 sell	aux
35	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 asked	xcomp
36	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 sell	iobj
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 pigeon	det
38	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 sell	obj
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 shot	nsubj:pass
40	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 shot	aux
41	just	just	ADV	_	42 shot	advmod
42	shot	shoot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 pigeon	acl:relcl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 died	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	die	past	matter				of envy and spite; nearly property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of envy=Causer
2	determine	gerund	matter not said here					vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	destroy	to-infinitive	matter not said here	the lad			without delay	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lad=Patient
4	send	gerund	matter not said here	a servant			therefore property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Theme
5	bring	to-infinitive	matter not said here	King		matter's presence		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to presence=Destination
6	ask speech: ask	past	matter		King			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
7	sell a condition, not said to happen	would	King	the pigeon	matter			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient pigeon=Theme
8	shoot	past · perfect · passive	the pigeon not said here	King				vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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