Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 53

There the king gave him eighty pounds of mustard seed, and told him to crush all the oil out of it that day, and bring it next morning to him to the court-house. "

Who acts: king · What happens: give, tell, crush, bring · To what, where: eighty pounds, son, king, oil · 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), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 gave	expl
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	iobj
6	eighty	eighty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 pounds	nummod
7	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gave	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 seed	case
9	mustard	mustard	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 seed	compound
10	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pounds	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 told	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 told	cc
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	iobj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 crush	mark
16	crush	crush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 told	xcomp
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 oil	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 oil	det
19	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 crush	obj
20	out	out	ADP	_	22 it	case
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 crush	obl
23	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 day	det
24	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 crush	obl:unmarked
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 bring	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 bring	cc
27	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 gave	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 bring	obj
29	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 morning	amod
30	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bring	obl:unmarked
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 bring	obl
33	to	to	ADP	_	37 house	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 house	det
35	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 house	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 court	punct
37	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bring	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the king	eighty pounds of mustard seed	son	there			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient pound=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	the king not said here		king				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	crush not said to happen	to-infinitive	the king not said here	all oil		oil	day		vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oil=Patient
4	bring	infinitive	the king not said here	oil	king		morning	to the court house	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to he=Destination

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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