Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 52
Then the King's son, lifting the Fakir, gave him a jerk and threw him into the caldron, and he was burnt, and became roast meat.
Who acts: son · What happens: lift, give, throw, burnt, become · To what, where: Fakir, jerk, caldron, son, roast meat
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 (son), 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 son | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 King | case |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lifting | punct |
| 7 | lifting | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 son | acl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Fakir | det |
| 9 | Fakir | Fakir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 lifting | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 11 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gave | iobj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 jerk | det |
| 14 | jerk | jerk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 threw | cc |
| 16 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 gave | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 threw | obj |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 caldron | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 caldron | det |
| 20 | caldron | caldron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 threw | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 burnt | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 burnt | cc |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 burnt | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 burnt | aux:pass |
| 25 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 threw | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 became | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 became | cc |
| 28 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 gave | conj |
| 29 | roast | roast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 meat | amod |
| 30 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 became | xcomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | gerund | the King's son not said here | the Fakir | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fakir=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | past | the King's son | a jerk | Fakir | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient jerk=Theme | |||
| 3 | throw | past | the King's son not said here | Fakir | into the caldron result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer he=Theme into caldron=Result | |||
| 4 | burnt | past · passive | son | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | become | past | the King's son not said here | roast meat | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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