Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 59
The prince made preparations for a fire, and arranged the few articles of bedding that they had with them, while the vizier's son went to the baniya and the baker and the butcher to get something for their dinner.
Who acts: prince, articles, son · What happens: make, arrange, have, go, get, article · To what, where: preparations, few articles, baniya, something, bedding
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, articles, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | preparations | preparation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 made | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 fire | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fire | det |
| 7 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 arranged | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 arranged | cc |
| 10 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 articles | det |
| 12 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 articles | amod |
| 13 | articles | article | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 arranged | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 bedding | case |
| 15 | bedding | bedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 articles | nmod |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 had | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 had | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 arranged | advcl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 had | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 went | punct |
| 22 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 27 went | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 vizier | det |
| 24 | vizier | vizier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 son | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 vizier | case |
| 26 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 went | nsubj |
| 27 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 had | conj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 baniya | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 baniya | det |
| 30 | baniya | baniya | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 went | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 baker | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 baker | det |
| 33 | baker | baker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 baniya | conj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 butcher | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 butcher | det |
| 36 | butcher | butcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 baniya | conj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 get | mark |
| 38 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 went | advcl |
| 39 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 38 get | obj |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 dinner | case |
| 41 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 42 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 get | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the prince | preparations | for a fire | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent preparation=Product for fire=Asset | |||
| 2 | arrange | past | the prince not said here | the few articles of bedding | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent article=Product | ||||
| 3 | have | past | articles = article | with preparations = preparation | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | go | past | the vizier's son | the baniya and the baker and the butcher | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to baniya=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | get | to-infinitive | the vizier's son not said here | something | for preparations's dinner | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent something=Theme for dinner=Source | |||
| 6 | article | bedding | nom article «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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