Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 62
The prince showed him the mustard seed, and said to him, "How can I crush the oil out of all this mustard seed in one day?
Who acts: prince, I · What happens: show, say, crush · To what, where: mustard seed, 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 (prince, I), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 showed | nsubj |
| 3 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 showed | iobj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 seed | det |
| 6 | mustard | mustard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seed | compound |
| 7 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 showed | 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 | 3 showed | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 crush | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 crush | punct |
| 15 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 crush | advmod |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 crush | aux |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 crush | nsubj |
| 18 | crush | crush | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 oil | det |
| 20 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 crush | obj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 seed | case |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 seed | case |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 seed | det:predet |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 seed | det |
| 25 | mustard | mustard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 seed | compound |
| 26 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 crush | obl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 day | case |
| 28 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 day | nummod |
| 29 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 crush | obl |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past | the prince | the mustard seed | king | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient seed=Topic | |||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | crush in a quote | can | I | the oil | all mustard seed | day | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oil=Patient |
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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