Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 62
A few days after this conversation she ordered one of her maids to make a pilaw.
Who acts: Gulizar · What happens: order, make · To what, where: one, pilaw
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 (Gulizar), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 days | det |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 days | amod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ordered | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 conversation | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 conversation | det |
| 6 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ordered | obl |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 ordered | nsubj |
| 8 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 ordered | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 maids | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 maids | nmod:poss |
| 12 | maids | maid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 one | nmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 make | mark |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ordered | advcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 pilaw | det |
| 16 | pilaw | pilaw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 make | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | Gulizar | one of Gulizar's maids | after this conversation; day | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | |||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | Gulizar not said here | a pilaw | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pilaw=Product |
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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