Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 153

The young Raja took his bag and said, "I want a great deal of betel-leaf," and it at once gave him quantities of betel-leaf.

Who acts: young Raja, bed · What happens: take, say, want, give, deal · To what, where: bag, great deal, quantities, Raja, betel leaf · 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 (young Raja, bed), 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 Raja	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Raja	amod
3	Raja	Raja	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 bag	nmod:poss
6	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 want	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 want	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 want	nsubj
12	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 deal	det
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 deal	amod
15	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 want	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 leaf	case
17	betel	betel	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 leaf	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 betel	punct
19	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 deal	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 want	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 want	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 gave	cc
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 gave	nsubj
24	at	at	SCONJ	_	26 gave	mark
25	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	26 gave	advmod
26	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 gave	iobj
28	quantities	quantity	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 gave	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 leaf	case
30	betel	betel	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 leaf	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 betel	punct
32	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 quantities	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	take	past	the young Raja	Raja's bag			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the young Raja not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	want in a quote	present	the young Raja = raja	a great deal of betel leaf			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot deal=Theme
4	give	past	bed	quantities of betel leaf	Raja	once property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient quantity=Theme
5	deal in a quote			betel leaf			nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient

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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