Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 60
The other sisters, however, thought Balna unnecessarily suspicious, and instead of following her advice, they gave the Prudhan's daughter some of the cake, and she went home and told her mother all about it.
Who acts: other sisters, sisters, Balna · What happens: think, follow, give, go, tell · To what, where: Balna, advice, some, daughter, mother · 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 (other sisters, sisters, Balna), 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 | 3 sisters | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sisters | amod |
| 3 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sisters | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 thought | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Balna | Balna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 thought | obj |
| 9 | unnecessarily | unnecessarily | ADV | _ | 10 suspicious | advmod |
| 10 | suspicious | suspicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thought | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 following | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 following | cc |
| 13 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 15 following | mark |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 instead | fixed |
| 15 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 thought | advcl |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 advice | nmod:poss |
| 17 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 following | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 gave | punct |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 gave | nsubj |
| 20 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 thought | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Prudhan | det |
| 22 | Prudhan | Prudhan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 Prudhan | case |
| 24 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gave | iobj |
| 25 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 gave | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 cake | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 cake | det |
| 28 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 some | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 went | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 went | cc |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 went | nsubj |
| 32 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 thought | parataxis |
| 33 | home | home | ADV | _ | 32 went | advmod |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 told | cc |
| 35 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 went | conj |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 mother | nmod:poss |
| 37 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 told | iobj |
| 38 | all | all | ADV | _ | 40 it | advmod |
| 39 | about | about | ADP | _ | 40 it | case |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 told | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the other sisters | Balna | however, suspicious property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot balna=Theme | |||
| 2 | follow | gerund | the other sisters not said here | Balna's advice | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | past | sisters = sister | some | the Prudhan's daughter | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient some=Theme | |||
| 4 | go | past | Balna | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | past | Balna not said here | Balna's mother | about cake | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient about it=Topic |
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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