Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 129

The old woman began preparing dinner, but he stopped her, "Aunty," he said, "I will give you food."

Who acts: old woman, son · What happens: begin, prepare, stop, say, give · To what, where: dinner, woman, food, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, son), 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	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	preparing	prepare	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 began	xcomp
6	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 preparing	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stopped	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 stopped	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 stopped	nsubj
10	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 stopped	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 Aunty	punct
14	Aunty	aunty	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Aunty	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 Aunty	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 stopped	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 give	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 give	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 give	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 give	aux
23	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 said	ccomp
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 give	iobj
25	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 give	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	begin	past	the old woman			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	prepare	gerund	the old woman not said here	dinner		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient
3	stop	past	son	woman		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector she=Eventuality
4	say speech: assert	past	son			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	give in a quote	future	son	food	you	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient food=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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