--- title: He put his hand into his bag, saying, "Bag, I want some dinner," and… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: He put his hand into his bag, saying, "Bag, I want some dinner," and the bag gave him instantly a delicious dinner, served up on two gold plates. Who acts: son, bag. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/7/130/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Indian Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/) / [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/7/) / 130 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 130 He put his hand into his bag, saying, "Bag, I want some dinner," and the bag gave him instantly a delicious dinner, served up on two gold plates. **Who acts:** son, bag · **What happens:** put, say, want, give, serve up · **To what, where:** hand, bag, dinner, delicious dinner, son, two gold plates · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, bag), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7128:7:130 # text = He put his hand into his bag, saying, "Bag, I want some dinner," and the bag gave him instantly a delicious dinner, served up on two gold plates. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 into into ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 Bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 16 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 17 det _ _ 17 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 24 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 iobj _ _ 25 instantly instantly ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 delicious delicious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 served serve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 acl _ _ 31 up up ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ _ 32 on on ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 34 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 plates plate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **put** | past | son | son's hand | | son's bag | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | son *not said here* | Bag | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **want** *in a quote* | present | son | some dinner | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot dinner=Theme | | 4 | **give** | past | the bag | a delicious dinner | son | | | instantly *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient dinner=Theme | | 5 | **serve up** | participle | | a delicious dinner *not said here* | | two gold plates | | | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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. - ← previous: [sentence 129](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/7/129/) - next →: [sentence 131](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/7/131/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/7/)