Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 92
"That's for spoiling my master's dinner and making me throw it away!" said he, and threw him into his basket.
Who acts: That, Dinner · What happens: spoil, make, throw away, say, throw · To what, where: dinner, master, basket · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (That, Dinner), 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 | _ | 5 spoiling | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 spoiling | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 spoiling | aux |
| 4 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 5 spoiling | mark |
| 5 | spoiling | spoil | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 said | ccomp |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 master | nmod:poss |
| 7 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 master | case |
| 9 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spoiling | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 making | cc |
| 11 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 spoiling | conj |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 making | iobj |
| 13 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 making | xcomp |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 throw | obj |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 throw | advmod |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 spoiling | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 spoiling | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 said | nsubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 threw | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 threw | cc |
| 22 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 threw | obj |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 basket | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 basket | nmod:poss |
| 26 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 threw | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spoil in a quote | present · progressive | That | my master's dinner | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make in a quote | gerund | That not said here | Dinner | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | throw away in a quote | infinitive | That not said here | master | away property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 4 | say speech: express | past | Dinner | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | throw | past | Dinner not said here | Dinner | into Dinner's basket result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer he=Theme into basket=Result |
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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