Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 87
Look! take, too, this wine and this shovel, and when you have feigned intense grief at the death of your friend, bid the princess to drink a little of the wine.
Who acts: you, friend · What happens: look, take, feign, bid, drink, die · To what, where: wine, intense grief, death, princess, little
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 (you, friend), 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 | Look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 take | advcl |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 too | punct |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 3 take | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wine | punct |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 wine | det |
| 8 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 shovel | cc |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 shovel | det |
| 11 | shovel | shovel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wine | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 feigned | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 feigned | cc |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 feigned | advmod |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 feigned | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 feigned | aux |
| 17 | feigned | feign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 take | advcl |
| 18 | intense | intense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 grief | amod |
| 19 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 feigned | obj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 death | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 death | det |
| 22 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 feigned | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 friend | case |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 friend | nmod:poss |
| 25 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 death | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 bid | punct |
| 27 | bid | bid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 feigned | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 princess | det |
| 29 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bid | obj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 drink | mark |
| 31 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 princess | acl |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 little | det |
| 33 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 drink | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 wine | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 wine | det |
| 36 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 little | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | infinitive | you not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | take | imperative | you not said here | this wine and this shovel | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Theme | ||||
| 3 | feign | present · perfect | you | intense grief | the death of your friend | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grief=Patient | |||
| 4 | bid | past | you not said here | the princess | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | drink | to-infinitive | you not said here | a little of the wine | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Patient | ||||
| 6 | die | your friend | nom death «event intransitive»: of=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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