Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 77

"Look here," he said, "in this handkerchief is some pilaw that the princess sent me this morning in the name of her deceased uncle.

Who acts: son, princess · What happens: look, say, be, send, decease, name · To what, where: pilaw, handkerchief, son, name, deceased uncle · 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 (son, princess), 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	_	2 Look	punct
2	Look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
3	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Look	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 handkerchief	case
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 handkerchief	det
12	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pilaw	obl
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 pilaw	cop
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 pilaw	det
15	pilaw	pilaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 sent	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 princess	det
18	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sent	nsubj
19	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 pilaw	acl
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 sent	obj
21	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 morning	det
22	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sent	obl:unmarked
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 name	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 name	det
25	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sent	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 uncle	case
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 uncle	nmod:poss
28	deceased	decease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 uncle	amod
29	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 name	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	look in a quote	infinitive			here		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	son				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a in a quote	present		some pilaw	this handkerchief		tree rules
4	send in a quote	past	the princess	son	the name of princess's deceased uncle	morning	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme in name=Destination
5	decease in a quote	participle					vn die-42.4 «NP V»: agent=Patient
6	name in a quote			princess's deceased uncle			nom name «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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