Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 7

Then the Teacher made the connexion, and gave the key to the birth-tale, saying: "At that time Angulimala was the Demon, but the Prince of the Five Weapons was I myself."

Who acts: Teacher, Angulimala, Demon · What happens: make, give, say, be · To what, where: connexion, key, birth tale, Demon, Teacher · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Teacher, Angulimala, Demon), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 made	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Teacher	det
3	Teacher	Teacher	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 connexion	det
6	connexion	connexion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	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	4 made	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 key	det
11	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gave	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	16 tale	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 tale	det
14	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tale	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 birth	punct
16	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gave	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 saying	punct
18	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 gave	advcl
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 Demon	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 Demon	punct
21	At	at	ADP	_	23 time	case
22	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 time	det
23	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Demon	obl
24	Angulimala	Angulimala	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Demon	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 Demon	cop
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Demon	det
27	Demon	demon	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 myself	nsubj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 Prince	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 Prince	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Prince	det
31	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Demon	appos
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 Weapons	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Weapons	det
34	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 Weapons	nummod
35	Weapons	weapon	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 Prince	nmod
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 myself	cop
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 myself	nsubj
38	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 made	ccomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	make	past	the Teacher	the connexion		then	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent connexion=Product
2	give	past	the Teacher not said here	the key	the birth tale		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent key=Theme to tale=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	gerund	the Teacher not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	past	Angulimala	the Demon		time	tree rules
5	is a in a quote	past	the Demon	Teacher			tree rules

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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