Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 31

Then, on entering a certain village, he bade me take his clasp knife and get two horses with it, and bring back the knife again to him."

Who acts: man · What happens: enter, bade, take, get, bring back · To what, where: certain village, me, clasp knife, two horses, knife, man

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	10 bade	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	on	on	SCONJ	_	4 entering	mark
4	entering	enter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 bade	advcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 village	det
6	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 village	amod
7	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 entering	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 entering	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 bade	nsubj
10	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 bade	obj
12	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 bade	xcomp
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 knife	nmod:poss
14	clasp	clasp	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 knife	compound
15	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 take	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 get	cc
17	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 take	conj
18	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 horses	nummod
19	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 get	obj
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 get	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bring	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 bring	cc
24	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 take	conj
25	back	back	ADV	_	24 bring	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 knife	det
27	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bring	obj
28	again	again	ADV	_	24 bring	advmod
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 bring	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 bade	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 bade	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	enter	gerund	man not said here	a certain village				vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme village=Destination
2	bade	past	man	me		then		tree rules
3	take	infinitive	man not said here	man's clasp knife				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme
4	get	infinitive	man not said here	two horses			with knife	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus
5	bring back	infinitive	man not said here	the knife	man	again		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent knife=Theme to 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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