Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 108
"A fakir, whose servant I am, gave it to me to sell in the bazaar," the prince replied. "
Who acts: fakir, prince · What happens: give, sell, reply · To what, where: necklace, prince, bazaar · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fakir, prince), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 gave | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fakir | det |
| 3 | fakir | fakir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 servant | punct |
| 5 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 6 servant | nmod:poss |
| 6 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fakir | appos |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 am | nsubj |
| 8 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 servant | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 fakir | punct |
| 10 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gave | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 me | case |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 gave | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 sell | mark |
| 15 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 gave | advcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 bazaar | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bazaar | det |
| 18 | bazaar | bazaar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sell | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 replied | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 replied | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 prince | det |
| 22 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 replied | nsubj |
| 23 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 gave | parataxis |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 gave | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | past | a fakir | necklace | the prince = prince | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sell in a quote | to-infinitive | a fakir not said here | the bazaar | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the prince | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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