Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 138
They beckoned to the two travellers and gave them as much as they would.
Who acts: people · What happens: beckon, give · To what, where: two travellers, people
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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 | 2 beckoned | nsubj |
| 2 | beckoned | beckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 travellers | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 travellers | det |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 travellers | nummod |
| 6 | travellers | traveller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 beckoned | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 gave | cc |
| 8 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 beckoned | conj |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 gave | iobj |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 much | advmod |
| 11 | much | much | ADV | _ | 8 gave | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 would | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 would | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 much | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 beckoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beckon | past | people | the two travellers | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to traveller=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | give | past | people not said here | people | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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