Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 76

The Princess said to her handmaiden, "Take this dish of henna, go to that traveller dressed like a Fakir, and sprinkle scent on him from the dish."

Who acts: Princess · What happens: say, take, go, dress, sprinkle · To what, where: handmaiden, dish, traveller, scent · 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 (Princess), 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 Princess	det
2	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 handmaiden	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 handmaiden	nmod:poss
6	handmaiden	handmaiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Take	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 Take	punct
9	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 dish	det
11	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Take	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 henna	case
13	henna	henna	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dish	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 go	punct
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 Take	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 traveller	case
17	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 traveller	det
18	traveller	traveller	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 go	obl
19	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 traveller	acl
20	like	like	ADP	_	22 Fakir	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 Fakir	det
22	Fakir	Fakir	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 dressed	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sprinkle	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 sprinkle	cc
25	sprinkle	sprinkle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
26	scent	scent	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sprinkle	obj
27	on	on	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 sprinkle	obl
29	from	from	ADP	_	31 dish	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 dish	det
31	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sprinkle	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Princess		Princess's handmaiden			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to handmaiden=Recipient clause=Topic
2	take in a quote	infinitive		this dish of henna				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Theme
3	go in a quote	infinitive				that traveller		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to traveller=Initial_Location
4	dress in a quote	participle		that traveller not said here			like a Fakir	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	sprinkle in a quote	present	the Princess not said here	scent		the dish	on traveller	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent scent=Theme on he=Destination

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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