Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 27
Then the farmer told the whole story, and Ram, taking pity on him, gave him a conch shell, and showed him how to blow it in a particular way, saying, "Remember! whatever you wish for, you have only to blow the conch that way, and your wish will be fulfilled.
Who acts: farmer, you, your · What happens: tell, take, give, show, blow, say · To what, where: whole story, pity, conch shell, Ram, shell, whatever · 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 (farmer, you, your), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 told | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 farmer | det |
| 3 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | nsubj |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 story | det |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 story | amod |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Ram | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Ram | cc |
| 10 | Ram | Ram | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 told | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 taking | punct |
| 12 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 told | advcl |
| 13 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taking | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 taking | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gave | punct |
| 17 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 gave | iobj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 shell | det |
| 20 | conch | conch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 shell | compound |
| 21 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gave | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 showed | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 showed | cc |
| 24 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 showed | iobj |
| 26 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 blow | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 blow | mark |
| 28 | blow | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 showed | ccomp |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 blow | obj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 way | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 way | det |
| 32 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 way | amod |
| 33 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 blow | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 saying | punct |
| 35 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 blow | advcl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 Remember | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 Remember | punct |
| 38 | Remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 saying | ccomp |
| 39 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 40 whatever | punct |
| 40 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 Remember | obj |
| 41 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 42 wish | nsubj |
| 42 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 whatever | acl:relcl |
| 43 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 wish | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 have | punct |
| 45 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 46 have | nsubj |
| 46 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 Remember | parataxis |
| 47 | only | only | ADV | _ | 49 blow | advmod |
| 48 | to | to | PART | _ | 49 blow | mark |
| 49 | blow | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 have | xcomp |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 conch | det |
| 51 | conch | conch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 blow | obj |
| 52 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 53 way | det |
| 53 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 blow | obl:unmarked |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 60 fulfilled | punct |
| 55 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 60 fulfilled | cc |
| 56 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 57 wish | nmod:poss |
| 57 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 60 fulfilled | nsubj:pass |
| 58 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 60 fulfilled | aux |
| 59 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 60 fulfilled | aux:pass |
| 60 | fulfilled | fulfil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 told | conj |
| 61 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the farmer | the whole story | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | |||
| 2 | take | gerund | the farmer not said here | pity | on Ram | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pity=Theme on he=Destination | |||
| 3 | give | past | the farmer not said here | a conch shell | Ram | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient shell=Theme | |||
| 4 | show | past | the farmer not said here | Ram | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | blow | to-infinitive | shell | in a particular way | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Patient in way=Topic | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 7 | remember in a quote | infinitive | whatever | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent whatever=Theme | |||||
| 8 | wish in a quote | present | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 9 | have in a quote | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 10 | blow in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | the conch | that way obl:unmarked | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent conch=Patient | |||
| 11 | fulfil in a quote | future · passive | your wish | tree rules | |||||
| 12 | wish in a quote | your | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: 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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