Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 102

He gave the prince a wax hatchet, and said, "To-morrow morning you must cut this trunk in two with this wax hatchet."

Who acts: king, you · What happens: give, say, cut · To what, where: wax hatchet, prince, trunk, two · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, you), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 prince	det
4	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hatchet	det
6	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hatchet	compound
7	hatchet	hatchet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 cut	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 cut	punct
13	To	to	ADP	_	16 morning	case
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 To	punct
15	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 morning	compound
16	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cut	obl
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 cut	nsubj
18	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 cut	aux
19	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 trunk	det
21	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cut	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 two	case
23	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 cut	obl
24	with	with	ADP	_	27 hatchet	case
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 hatchet	det
26	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hatchet	compound
27	hatchet	hatchet	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cut	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 cut	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	king	a wax hatchet	the prince				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient hatchet=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	king not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	cut in a quote	must	you	this trunk		two	morning	with this wax hatchet	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trunk=Patient with hatchet=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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