Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 135
So he took his bowl and said to it, "Bowl, I want some water," and then it filled with water.
Who acts: prince, water · What happens: take, say, want, fill · To what, where: bowl, water · 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 (prince, water), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 bowl | nmod:poss |
| 5 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Bowl | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Bowl | punct |
| 12 | Bowl | Bowl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 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 | 3 took | parataxis |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 water | det |
| 17 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 want | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 want | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 want | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 filled | cc |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 filled | advmod |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 filled | nsubj |
| 23 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 water | case |
| 25 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 filled | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | prince | prince's bowl | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent bowl=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | prince not said here | bowl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to it=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | want in a quote | present | the prince = prince | some water | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot water=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fill | past | water | then | with water | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with water=Instrument |
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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