Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 30
Then the Fakir went on his way, and the King came home and gave one sweetmeat to each of his two wives.
Who acts: Fakir, King · What happens: go, come, give · To what, where: way, one sweetmeat, each
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, King), 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 | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Fakir | det |
| 3 | Fakir | Fakir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 way | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 way | nmod:poss |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 came | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 King | det |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | parataxis |
| 13 | home | home | ADV | _ | 12 came | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 gave | cc |
| 15 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 came | conj |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 sweetmeat | nummod |
| 17 | sweetmeat | sweetmeat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 each | case |
| 19 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 gave | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 wives | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 wives | nmod:poss |
| 22 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 wives | nummod |
| 23 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 each | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the Fakir | Fakir's way | then | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location | |||
| 2 | come | past | the King | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | past | the King not said here | one sweetmeat | each | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sweetmeat=Theme to each=Recipient |
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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