Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 116
They were to bathe her, dress her in beautiful clothes and handsome jewels, and then bring her to him in the palanquin.
Who acts: daughters · What happens: bathe, dress, bring · To what, where: gardener, beautiful clothes, prince, palanquin
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughters), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bathe | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bathe | aux |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 bathe | mark |
| 4 | bathe | bathe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bathe | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dress | punct |
| 7 | dress | dress | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 bathe | conj |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 dress | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 clothes | case |
| 10 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 clothes | amod |
| 11 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 7 dress | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 jewels | cc |
| 13 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 jewels | amod |
| 14 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 clothes | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 bring | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 bring | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 bring | advmod |
| 18 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 bathe | conj |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 bring | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 bring | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 palanquin | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 palanquin | det |
| 24 | palanquin | palanquin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bring | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bathe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bathe | past | daughters = daughter | gardener | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Destination | ||||
| 2 | dress | infinitive | daughters = daughter not said here | gardener | beautiful clothes and handsome jewels | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | |||
| 3 | bring | infinitive | daughters = daughter not said here | gardener | prince | the palanquin | then | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to he=Destination |
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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