Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 34
And she bade her watch the seven Princesses, and see if any one gave them anything to eat.
Who acts: Ranee, one · What happens: bade, watch, see, give, eat · To what, where: seven Princesses, anything, Princesses
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 (Ranee, one), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 bade | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bade | nsubj |
| 3 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 watch | nmod:poss |
| 5 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 bade | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Princesses | det |
| 7 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 Princesses | nummod |
| 8 | Princesses | Princess | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 watch | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 see | cc |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 watch | conj |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 gave | mark |
| 13 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 one | det |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | nsubj |
| 15 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 see | ccomp |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 gave | iobj |
| 17 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 gave | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 eat | mark |
| 19 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 anything | acl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bade | past | Ranee | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | watch | infinitive | Ranee not said here | the seven Princesses | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | Ranee not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | give a condition, not said to happen | past | any one | anything | Princesses = princess | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient anything=Theme | |||
| 5 | eat | to-infinitive | any one not said here | anything not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «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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