Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 20
Next he noticed the Prudhan's widow come to the door, and beg for a few sticks from the fire to cook her dinner with.
Who acts: Prudhan, widow · What happens: notice, come, cook · To what, where: beg, door, dinner · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prudhan, widow), 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 | Next | next | ADV | _ | 3 noticed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 noticed | nsubj |
| 3 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Prudhan | det |
| 5 | Prudhan | Prudhan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 widow | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Prudhan | case |
| 7 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 come | nsubj |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 noticed | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 door | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 door | det |
| 11 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 come | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 beg | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 beg | cc |
| 14 | beg | beg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 noticed | obl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 sticks | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 sticks | det |
| 17 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sticks | amod |
| 18 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 beg | nmod |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 fire | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 fire | det |
| 21 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sticks | nmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 cook | mark |
| 23 | cook | cook | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 noticed | advcl |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 25 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cook | obj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 cook | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | past | Prudhan | beg for a few sticks from the fire | next property | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | come | infinitive | the Prudhan's widow | the door | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | cook | to-infinitive | Prudhan not said here | Balna's dinner | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent dinner=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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