Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 86
Take this, and give it him for a fee."
Who acts: you · What happens: take, give · To what, where: this, city, son
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 (you), 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Take | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 give | cc |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 give | obj |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 give | iobj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 fee | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 fee | det |
| 10 | fee | fee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | this | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | infinitive | you not said here | city | son | for a fee | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient it=Theme for fee=Asset |
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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