Indian Fairy Tales, X. the Soothsayer's Son., sentence 18

The lion brings his benefactor a leveret, the serpent "gemmam pretiosam," probably "the precious jewel in his head" to which Shakespeare alludes (_As You Like It_, ii.

Who acts: lion, serpent, Shakespeare, You · What happens: bring, pretiosam, allude, like · To what, where: benefactor, ii, jewel

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 (lion, serpent, Shakespeare, You), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lion	det
2	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brings	nsubj
3	brings	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 benefactor	nmod:poss
5	benefactor	benefactor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brings	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 leveret	det
7	leveret	leveret	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brings	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pretiosam	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 pretiosam	det
10	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pretiosam	nsubj
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 pretiosam	punct
12	gemmam	gemmam	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pretiosam	compound
13	pretiosam	pretiosam	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 leveret	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 probably	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 probably	punct
16	probably	probably	ADV	_	3 brings	parataxis
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 probably	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 jewel	det
19	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 jewel	amod
20	jewel	jewel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brings	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 head	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 head	nmod:poss
23	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 jewel	nmod
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 head	punct
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 which	case
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 alludes	obl
27	Shakespeare	Shakespeare	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 alludes	nsubj
28	alludes	allude	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 head	parataxis
29	(	(	PUNCT	_	30 _	punct
30	_	_	PUNCT	_	28 alludes	punct
31	As	as	SCONJ	_	33 Like	mark
32	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 Like	nsubj
33	Like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 alludes	advcl
34	It	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 Like	obj
35	_	_	PUNCT	_	33 Like	discourse
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 ii	punct
37	ii	II	NUM	NumForm=Roman NumType=Card	28 alludes	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 brings	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bring	present	the lion	Vitalis's benefactor		tree rules
2	pretiosam in a quote		serpent			tree rules
3	allude	present	Shakespeare	ii	to serpent's head	tree rules
4	like	present	You	jewel		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=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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