Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 43

Then he blew his conch, and wished for a well to water them, and lo! there was the well, _but the money-lender had two!

Who acts: lender, well, money lender · What happens: blow, wish, be, have · To what, where: conch, two

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 (lender, well, money lender), 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	3 blew	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 blew	nsubj
3	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 conch	nmod:poss
5	conch	conch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blew	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wished	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wished	cc
8	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 blew	conj
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 well	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 well	det
11	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wished	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 water	mark
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 well	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 water	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 was	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 was	cc
17	lo	lo	INTJ	_	20 was	discourse
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 lo	punct
19	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	20 was	expl
20	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 blew	parataxis
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 well	det
22	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 was	nsubj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 well	punct
24	_	_	PUNCT	_	3 blew	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 had	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 lender	det
27	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lender	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 money	punct
29	lender	lender	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 blew	conj
31	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 had	obj
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 blew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past	lender	lender's conch		then		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent conch=Patient
2	wish	past	lender not said here				for a well and water well	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for well=Theme
3	be	past	the well		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	have	past	the money lender	two				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Patient

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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