Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 48
Accordingly she called a servant and sent him to the young man with a present of a basin of ghee, twelve chapatis, and a jar of milk, and the following message:--"O friend, the moon is full; twelve months make a year, and the sea is overflowing with water."
Who acts: guest, moon, twelve months, sea · What happens: call, send, follow, be, make, overflow · To what, where: servant, man, young man · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (guest, moon, twelve months, sea), 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 | Accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 3 called | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 called | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 servant | det |
| 5 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sent | cc |
| 7 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sent | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 man | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sent | obl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 present | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 present | det |
| 15 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 man | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 basin | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 basin | det |
| 18 | basin | basin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 present | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 ghee | case |
| 20 | ghee | ghee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 basin | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 chapatis | punct |
| 22 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 chapatis | nummod |
| 23 | chapatis | chapati | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 man | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 jar | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 jar | cc |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 jar | det |
| 27 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 milk | case |
| 29 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 jar | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 message | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 message | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 message | det |
| 33 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 message | amod |
| 34 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | xcomp |
| 35 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 39 friend | punct |
| 36 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 39 friend | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 friend | punct |
| 38 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 39 friend | discourse |
| 39 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 message | appos |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 full | punct |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 moon | det |
| 42 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 full | nsubj |
| 43 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 full | cop |
| 44 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 friend | advcl |
| 45 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 48 make | punct |
| 46 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 47 months | nummod |
| 47 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 make | nsubj |
| 48 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 friend | parataxis |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 year | det |
| 50 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 make | obj |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 overflowing | punct |
| 52 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 overflowing | cc |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 sea | det |
| 54 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 overflowing | nsubj |
| 55 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 56 overflowing | aux |
| 56 | overflowing | overflow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 48 make | advcl |
| 57 | with | with | ADP | _ | 58 water | case |
| 58 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 overflowing | obl |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 39 friend | punct |
| 60 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 friend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | past | guest | a servant | a jar of milk obl; accordingly property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent servant=Recipient | |||
| 2 | send | past | guest not said here | man | the young man with a present of a basin of ghee and twelve chapatis | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to man=Destination | |||
| 3 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | the moon | full property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | make in a quote | present | twelve months | year | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 6 | overflow in a quote | present · progressive | the sea | with water | tree rules |
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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