Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 66
His father, too, gave him plenty of rupees.
Who acts: father · What happens: give · To what, where: plenty, prince
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 (father), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 father | punct |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 2 father | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 father | punct |
| 6 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gave | iobj |
| 8 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 rupees | case |
| 10 | rupees | rupee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 plenty | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | prince's father | plenty of rupees | prince | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient plenty=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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