Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 17

Of every dainty dish that was brought round, she placed a small portion under one of her beautiful long finger-nails, that Star might also have a share in the treat.

Who acts: Moon, Star · What happens: bring round, place, have · To what, where: dainty dish, small portion, share, treat

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moon, Star), 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	Of	of	ADP	_	4 dish	case
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 dish	det
3	dainty	dainty	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dish	compound
4	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 placed	obl
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 brought	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 brought	aux:pass
7	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 dish	acl:relcl
8	round	round	ADV	_	7 brought	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dish	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 placed	nsubj
11	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 portion	det
13	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 portion	amod
14	portion	portion	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 placed	obj
15	under	under	ADP	_	16 one	case
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 placed	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	23 nails	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 nails	nmod:poss
19	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 nails	amod
20	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 nails	amod
21	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 nails	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 finger	punct
23	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 one	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 have	punct
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 have	mark
26	Star	Star	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 have	nsubj
27	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 have	aux
28	also	also	ADV	_	29 have	advmod
29	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 placed	conj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 share	det
31	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 have	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 treat	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 treat	det
34	treat	treat	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 have	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bring round	past · passive		every dainty dish		round property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme
2	place	past	Moon	a small portion		of every dainty dish; under one of Moon's beautiful long finger nails	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent portion=Theme under one=Destination
3	have	might	Star	a share	the treat		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=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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