Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 13

It gave him a splendid shawl, and he spread it over the princess as she lay asleep.

Who acts: shawl, son, princess · What happens: give, spread, lie · To what, where: splendid shawl, son, shawl

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 (shawl, son, princess), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut 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	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	iobj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 shawl	det
5	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shawl	amod
6	shawl	shawl	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 spread	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 spread	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 spread	nsubj
10	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 spread	obj
12	over	over	ADP	_	14 princess	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 princess	det
14	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spread	obl
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 lay	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 lay	nsubj
17	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 spread	advcl
18	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 lay	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	past	shawl	a splendid shawl	son		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient shawl=Theme
2	spread	past	son	shawl		over the princess	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme over princess=Destination
3	lie	past	princess			asleep property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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