Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 9
So he stayed, and they took their dinner out of the bag, and the bowl gave them water.
Who acts: aunty, servants, bowl · What happens: stay, take, give · To what, where: dinner, bag, water, servants
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 (aunty, servants, bowl), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 stayed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stayed | nsubj |
| 3 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 took | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 took | cc |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 took | nsubj |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stayed | conj |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 9 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 bag | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 bag | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bag | det |
| 13 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gave | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 gave | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bowl | det |
| 17 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | nsubj |
| 18 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stayed | conj |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 gave | iobj |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | aunty | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take | past | servants = servant | servants's dinner | the bag | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent dinner=Theme out bag=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | give | past | the bowl | water | servants = servant | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient water=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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