Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 130

He put his hand into his bag, saying, "Bag, I want some dinner," and the bag gave him instantly a delicious dinner, served up on two gold plates.

Who acts: son, bag · What happens: put, say, want, give, serve up · To what, where: hand, bag, dinner, delicious dinner, son, two gold plates · 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 (son, bag), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 put	nsubj
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hand	nmod:poss
4	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 bag	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 bag	nmod:poss
7	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 saying	punct
9	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 put	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Bag	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 Bag	punct
12	Bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saying	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 want	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 want	nsubj
15	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 saying	ccomp
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 dinner	det
17	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 want	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 want	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 want	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 gave	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bag	det
22	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 gave	nsubj
23	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 put	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 gave	iobj
25	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	23 gave	advmod
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 dinner	det
27	delicious	delicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 dinner	amod
28	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 gave	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 served	punct
30	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 dinner	acl
31	up	up	ADP	_	30 served	compound:prt
32	on	on	ADP	_	35 plates	case
33	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 plates	nummod
34	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 plates	compound
35	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 served	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	past	son	son's hand		son's bag		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal
2	say speech: assert	gerund	son not said here	Bag				tree rules
3	want in a quote	present	son	some dinner				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot dinner=Theme
4	give	past	the bag	a delicious dinner	son		instantly property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient dinner=Theme
5	serve up	participle		a delicious dinner not said here		two gold plates		vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent

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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