Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 71

Now," he said to himself, "I will eat some of the sweetmeats my mother gave me, and I will drink some water, and then I will continue my journey."

Who acts: prince, I, mother, my · What happens: say, eat, give, drink, continue, journey · To what, where: prince, some, sweetmeats, me, water, journey · 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, I, mother, my), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 said	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 himself	case
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 said	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 eat	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 eat	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 eat	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 eat	aux
12	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	parataxis
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 eat	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 sweetmeats	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sweetmeats	det
16	sweetmeats	sweetmeat	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 some	nmod
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 mother	nmod:poss
18	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gave	nsubj
19	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sweetmeats	acl:relcl
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 gave	iobj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 drink	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 drink	cc
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 drink	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 drink	aux
25	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 eat	conj
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 water	det
27	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 drink	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 continue	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 continue	cc
30	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 continue	advmod
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 continue	nsubj
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 continue	aux
33	continue	continue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
34	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 journey	nmod:poss
35	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 continue	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 continue	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 continue	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	prince		prince	now	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to himself=Experiencer clause=Topic
2	eat	future	I	some			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient
3	give	past	my mother	the sweetmeats not said here	me		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	drink	future	I	some water			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
5	continue	future	I	my journey		then	vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent journey=Theme
6	journey		my				nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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