Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 12

He took his bag and said, "Bag, I want a most lovely shawl."

Who acts: son, old woman · What happens: take, say, want · To what, where: bag, lovely shawl · 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 (son, old woman), 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 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 bag	nmod:poss
4	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 said	cc
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Bag	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 Bag	punct
9	Bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl
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	2 took	parataxis
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 shawl	det
14	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	15 lovely	advmod
15	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 shawl	amod
16	shawl	shawl	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 want	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	take	past	son	son's bag	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent bag=Theme clause=Attribute
2	say speech: assert	past	son not said here	Bag	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	want in a quote	present	the old woman = woman	a lovely shawl	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot shawl=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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