Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 75

Then the horse gave him some poor, common clothes, which he told him to put on.

Who acts: horse, boy, poor common clothes · What happens: give, tell, put on · To what, where: poor common clothes, boy, horse · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, boy, poor common clothes), 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 gave	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 horse	det
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	iobj
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 clothes	det
7	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 clothes	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 poor	punct
9	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 clothes	amod
10	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	4 gave	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 told	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 told	obj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 told	nsubj
14	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 clothes	acl:relcl
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 told	iobj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 put	mark
17	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 told	xcomp
18	on	on	ADP	_	17 put	compound:prt
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	give	past	the horse	some poor common clothes	boy	then	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clothes=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	boy	some poor common clothes	horse		tree rules
3	put on not said to happen	to-infinitive	some poor common clothes not said here				vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=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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