Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 49

The Fakir told him to come once, he told him twice, he told him three times, and each time the King's son answered, "Master first, and pupil after."

Who acts: Fakir, son, time · What happens: tell, come, answer · To what, where: son, Fakir, Master · 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, son, time), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Fakir	det
2	Fakir	Fakir	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 come	mark
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	xcomp
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 come	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	nsubj
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	parataxis
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	iobj
12	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 told	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 told	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 told	nsubj
15	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 told	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 told	iobj
17	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 times	nummod
18	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 told	obl:unmarked
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 answered	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 answered	cc
21	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	22 time	det
22	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 answered	nsubj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 King	det
24	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 son	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 King	case
26	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 time	nmod
27	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Master	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 Master	punct
30	Master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 answered	obj
31	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	27 answered	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 pupil	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 pupil	cc
34	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	parataxis
35	after	after	ADV	_	34 pupil	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 pupil	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 pupil	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the Fakir		son			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	come not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Fakir not said here				once property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	son		Fakir		twice property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	tell speech: assert	past	son		Fakir	time		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
5	answer speech: assert	past	each time the King's son	Master			first property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent master=Eventuality

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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