Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 122
When they were all at dinner, the prince again made the gardener's daughter a great many salaams, and gave her food from all the nicest dishes.
Who acts: salaams, dinner · What happens: be, make, give · To what, where: dinner, great many salaams, daughter, food, gardener, nicest dishes
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 (salaams, dinner), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 dinner | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 dinner | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dinner | cop |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 dinner | advmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 dinner | case |
| 6 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 prince | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 prince | det |
| 9 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dinner | appos |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 prince | advmod |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 gardener | det |
| 13 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 gardener | case |
| 15 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 salaams | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 salaams | amod |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 salaams | amod |
| 19 | salaams | salaam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 made | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 gave | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 gave | cc |
| 22 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 made | conj |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 gave | iobj |
| 24 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gave | obj |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 dishes | case |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 dishes | det:predet |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 dishes | det |
| 28 | nicest | nice | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 29 dishes | amod |
| 29 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 gave | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | salaams = salaam | dinner | all property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | make | past | dinner | a great many salaams | the gardener's daughter | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset daughter=Beneficiary salaam=Product | |||
| 3 | give | past | dinner not said here | food | gardener | all nicest dishes | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient food=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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