Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 41
And calling her to them, they gave her one of the pomeloes.
Who acts: girls · What happens: call, give · To what, where: mother, girls, one · 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 (girls), 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 | _ | 8 gave | cc |
| 2 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 gave | advcl |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 calling | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 calling | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 calling | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 gave | nsubj |
| 8 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 gave | iobj |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 gave | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 pomeloes | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pomeloes | det |
| 13 | pomeloes | pomeloe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 one | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | gerund | girls = girl not said here | mother | girls = girl | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Topic to they=Recipient | |||
| 2 | give | past | girls = girl | one of the pomeloes | mother | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient one=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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