Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 49

Half-way the bearer of this present and message met his little son, who, seeing what was in the basket, begged his father to give him some of the food.

Who acts: Half way, little son · What happens: meet, see, be, beg, give · To what, where: little son, basket, father, some · 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 (Half way, little 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	Half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	3 way	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Half	punct
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 met	nsubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bearer	det
5	bearer	bearer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 met	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 present	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 present	det
8	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bearer	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 message	cc
10	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 present	conj
11	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 son	nmod:poss
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 son	amod
14	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 met	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 seeing	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 seeing	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 seeing	punct
18	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 son	acl
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 basket	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 basket	cop
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 basket	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 basket	det
23	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 seeing	ccomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 begged	punct
25	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 met	conj
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 father	nmod:poss
27	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 begged	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 give	mark
29	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 begged	ccomp
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 give	iobj
31	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	29 give	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 food	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 food	det
34	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 some	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	meet	past	Half way	bearer's little son			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Co-Agent
2	see	gerund	bearer's little son				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past				the basket	tree rules
4	beg speech: request	past	Half way not said here		bearer's father		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent father=Recipient clause=Topic
5	give not said to happen	to-infinitive		some	Father		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient some=Theme

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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