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Indian Fairy Tales, X. the Soothsayer's Son., sentence 17

413-6, how a lion and a serpent and a Venetian named Vitalis were saved from a pit by a woodman, Vitalis promising him half his fortune, fifty talents.

Who acts: woodman, Vitalis · What happens: name, save, promise · To what, where: Venetian, lion, pit, fortune, Vitalis

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, X. the Soothsayer's Son.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woodman, Vitalis), 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

punctadvmoddetnsubj:passccdetconjccdetconjaclxcompaux:passparataxiscasedetoblcasedetoblpunctapposaclobjdet:predetnmod:possobjpunctnummodconjpunctroot413-6NUM,PUNCThowADVaDETlionNOUNandCCONJaDETserpentNOUNandCCONJaDETVenetianNOUNnamedVERBVitalisPROPNwereAUXsavedVERBfromADPaDETpitNOUNbyADPaDETwoodmanNOUN,PUNCTVitalisPROPNpromisingVERBhimPRONhalfDEThisPRONfortuneNOUN,PUNCTfiftyNUMtalentsNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1413-6413-6NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Cardrootroot
2,,PUNCT_15 savedpunct
3howhowADVPronType=Int15 savedadvmod
4aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art5 liondet
5lionlionNOUNNumber=Sing15 savednsubj:pass
6andandCCONJ_8 serpentcc
7aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art8 serpentdet
8serpentserpentNOUNNumber=Sing5 lionconj
9andandCCONJ_11 Venetiancc
10aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art11 Venetiandet
11VenetianvenetianNOUNNumber=Sing5 lionconj
12namednameVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass11 Venetianacl
13VitalisVitalisPROPNNumber=Sing12 namedxcomp
14werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin15 savedaux:pass
15savedsaveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass1 413-6parataxis
16fromfromADP_18 pitcase
17aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art18 pitdet
18pitpitNOUNNumber=Sing15 savedobl
19bybyADP_21 woodmancase
20aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art21 woodmandet
21woodmanwoodmanNOUNNumber=Sing15 savedobl
22,,PUNCT_23 Vitalispunct
23VitalisVitalisPROPNNumber=Sing21 woodmanappos
24promisingpromiseVERBVerbForm=Ger23 Vitalisacl
25himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 promisingobj
26halfhalfDETNumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind28 fortunedet:predet
27hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs28 fortunenmod:poss
28fortunefortuneNOUNNumber=Sing24 promisingobj
29,,PUNCT_31 talentspunct
30fiftyfiftyNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card31 talentsnummod
31talentstalentNOUNNumber=Plur28 fortuneconj
32..PUNCT_1 413-6punct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1nameparticiplea Venetian not said herevn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2savepast · passivea woodmana lion and a serpent and a Venetiana pitvn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent subject=Theme from pit=Source
3promise speech: promisegerundVitalis not said hereVitalis's fortune and fifty talentsVitalisvn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal fortune=Theme

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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