Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 87
With that he gave him a thousand pieces of money, and dismissed him.
Who acts: son · What happens: give, dismiss · To what, where: thousand pieces, story, 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 (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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 gave | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | iobj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 pieces | det |
| 7 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 pieces | nummod |
| 8 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gave | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 money | case |
| 10 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pieces | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dismissed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 dismissed | cc |
| 13 | dismissed | dismiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gave | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 dismissed | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | son | a thousand pieces of money | story | with that | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient piece=Theme | ||
| 2 | dismiss | past | son not said here | son | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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