Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 51
Presently he saw the young man, and gave him the rest of the present and the message.
Who acts: Father · What happens: see, give · To what, where: young man, rest, Father
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 (Father), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7128:1938): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 gave | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gave | cc |
| 9 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gave | iobj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 rest | det |
| 12 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 present | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 present | det |
| 15 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rest | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 message | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 message | det |
| 18 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rest | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Father | the young man | presently property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | give | past | Father not said here | the rest of the present and the message | Father | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient rest=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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