Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 26

Then he took out two sweetmeats and handed them to the King, and said, "King! take these two sweetmeats and give them to your wives; give them to the wives you love best."

Who acts: Fakir, you · What happens: take out, hand, say, take, give, love · To what, where: two sweetmeats, sweetmeats, King, wives · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Fakir, you), 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	3 took	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 took	compound:prt
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 sweetmeats	nummod
6	sweetmeats	sweetmeat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 took	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 handed	cc
8	handed	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 handed	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 King	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 King	det
12	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 handed	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 King	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 King	punct
18	King	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	obj
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 King	punct
20	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
21	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	23 sweetmeats	det
22	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 sweetmeats	nummod
23	sweetmeats	sweetmeat	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 take	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 give	cc
25	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 take	conj
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 give	iobj
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 wives	case
28	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 wives	nmod:poss
29	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 give	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 give	punct
31	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 took	conj
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 give	iobj
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 wives	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 wives	det
35	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 give	obl
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 love	nsubj
37	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 wives	acl:relcl
38	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	37 love	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	take out	past	Fakir	two sweetmeats		then		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweetmeat=Theme
2	hand	past	Fakir not said here	sweetmeats = sweetmeat	the King			vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to king=Destination
3	say speech: express	past	Fakir not said here	King				tree rules
4	take in a quote	infinitive		this two sweetmeats				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweetmeat=Theme
5	give in a quote	infinitive			sweetmeats = sweetmeat		to your wives	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to wife=Recipient
6	give in a quote	infinitive	Fakir not said here		sweetmeats = sweetmeat		to the wives	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to wife=Recipient
7	love in a quote	present	you	the wives not said here			well property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus

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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