Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 98
Then they gave him a good dinner, and he stayed with them for three days.
Who acts: salaams, son · What happens: give, stay · To what, where: good dinner, son
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 (salaams, son), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 gave | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 dinner | det |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dinner | amod |
| 7 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stayed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 stayed | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stayed | nsubj |
| 11 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stayed | obl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 days | case |
| 15 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 days | nummod |
| 16 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stayed | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | salaams = salaam | a good dinner | son | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient dinner=Theme | ||
| 2 | stay | past | son | day | with salaams = salaam | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with they=Location |
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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