Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 33

Then the young prince took six pice, and made them red-hot in the fire; he laid one on the back of each of the six princes, and gave them good food and water.

Who acts: young prince, prince · What happens: take, make, lay, give · To what, where: six pice, daughters, fire, one, back, good food

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 (young prince, prince), 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	5 took	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 prince	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 prince	amod
4	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	nsubj
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 pice	nummod
7	pice	pice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 made	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 made	cc
10	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 took	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 made	obj
12	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 hot	amod
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 red	punct
14	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 made	xcomp
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 fire	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fire	det
17	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 laid	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 laid	nsubj
20	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 took	conj
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 laid	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 back	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 back	det
24	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 laid	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 each	case
26	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	24 back	nmod
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 princes	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 princes	det
29	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 princes	nummod
30	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 each	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 gave	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 gave	cc
33	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 took	conj
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 gave	iobj
35	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 food	amod
36	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 gave	obj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 water	cc
38	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 food	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the young prince	six pice			then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pice=Theme
2	make	past	the young prince not said here	daughters = daughter		the fire		hot property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product
3	lay	past	prince	one		the back of each			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Theme on back=Destination
4	give	past	the young prince not said here	good food and water	daughters = daughter				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=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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