Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 59

Her words moved the heart of Raja Rasalu, and, going to the potter, he asked him to sell the kiln as it was; but the potter replied that he could not settle a fair price till the pots were burnt, as he could not tell how many would come out whole.

Who acts: words, Raja, heart, potter, many, Sarkap · What happens: move, go, ask, sell, be, reply · To what, where: heart, potter, Rasalu, kiln, fair price, pots · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words, Raja, heart, potter), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 words	nmod:poss
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 moved	nsubj
3	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 heart	det
5	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 moved	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Raja	case
7	Raja	Raja	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 heart	nmod
8	Rasalu	Rasalu	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Raja	flat
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 going	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 going	cc
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 going	punct
12	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 moved	advcl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 potter	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 potter	det
15	potter	potter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 going	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 asked	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 asked	nsubj
18	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 moved	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 asked	iobj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 sell	mark
21	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 asked	xcomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 kiln	det
23	kiln	kiln	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sell	obj
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 was	mark
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 was	nsubj
26	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 sell	advcl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 replied	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 replied	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 potter	det
30	potter	potter	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 replied	nsubj
31	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 moved	parataxis
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 settle	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 settle	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 settle	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 settle	advmod
36	settle	settle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 replied	ccomp
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 price	det
38	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 price	amod
39	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 settle	obj
40	till	till	SCONJ	_	44 burnt	mark
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 pots	det
42	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 burnt	nsubj:pass
43	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 burnt	aux:pass
44	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 settle	advcl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 tell	punct
46	as	as	SCONJ	_	50 tell	mark
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 tell	nsubj
48	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 tell	aux
49	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	50 tell	advmod
50	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 burnt	conj
51	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	52 many	advmod
52	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 come	nsubj
53	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 come	aux
54	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 tell	ccomp
55	out	out	ADV	_	54 come	advmod
56	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 come	xcomp
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 moved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	move	past	Sarkap's words	the heart of Raja				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent heart=Theme
2	go	gerund	Sarkap's words not said here			the potter		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to potter=Initial_Location
3	ask speech: ask	past	Raja		Rasalu			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	sell not said to happen	to-infinitive	Raja not said here	the kiln				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kiln=Theme
5	be	past	heart					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	reply speech: assert	past	the potter					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	not settle	could	Raja	a fair price				vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme price=Location
8	burnt	past · passive		the pots				tree rules
9	not tell speech: assert	could	Raja					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
10	come out	would	many				out, whole property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
11	word		Sarkap					nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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