Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 18

"Thank you, I will!" replied the simple farmer; so he prepared three girdle-cakes to last him on the journey, and set out to find Ram.

Who acts: simple farmer, friend · What happens: thank, reply, prepare, last, set out, find · To what, where: you, three girdle cakes, friend, journey, Ram · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (simple farmer, friend), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct
2	Thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Thank	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 will	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 Thank	ccomp
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct
9	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Thank	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 farmer	det
11	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 farmer	amod
12	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 replied	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 prepared	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 prepared	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 prepared	nsubj
16	prepared	prepare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Thank	conj
17	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 cakes	nummod
18	girdle	girdle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cakes	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 girdle	punct
20	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 prepared	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 last	mark
22	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 prepared	xcomp
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 last	obj
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 journey	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 journey	det
26	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 last	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 set	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 set	cc
29	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Thank	conj
30	out	out	ADP	_	29 set	compound:prt
31	to	to	PART	_	32 find	mark
32	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 set	advcl
33	Ram	Ram	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 find	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	thank speech: thank in a quote	present			you		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	reply speech: express	past	the simple farmer				vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	prepare	past	friend	three girdle cakes			vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent cake=Theme clause=Attribute
4	last not said to happen	to-infinitive	friend not said here	friend		the journey	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme he=Value
5	set out	infinitive					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	find	to-infinitive		Ram			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ram=Topic

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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