Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 66

The King gave her a kettle-drum which he placed near the door for her, and he said to her, "Whenever you want me, beat this kettle-drum.

Who acts: King, kettle drum, gardener · What happens: give, place, say, want, beat · To what, where: kettle drum, gardener, door, King · 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 (King, kettle drum, gardener), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	iobj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 drum	det
6	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drum	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 kettle	punct
8	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 placed	nsubj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 placed	nsubj
11	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 drum	acl:relcl
12	near	near	ADP	_	14 door	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 door	det
14	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 placed	obl
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 her	case
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 placed	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 said	nsubj
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 her	case
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 said	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 want	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 want	punct
25	Whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 want	advmod
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 want	nsubj
27	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 said	ccomp
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 want	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 beat	punct
30	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 want	xcomp
31	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 drum	det
32	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 drum	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 kettle	punct
34	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 beat	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	past	the King	a kettle drum	gardener			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient drum=Theme
2	place	past	a kettle drum			the door	for gardener	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent near door=Destination
3	say speech: assert	past	King		gardener			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	want in a quote	present	gardener	King			whenever property	tree rules
5	beat not said to happen, in a quote	infinitive	King not said here	this kettle drum				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location drum=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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