Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 13
Then the Malee's wife said, "This country and this palace belong to a great enchanter; he is all powerful, and if any one displeases him, he can turn them into stones and trees.
Who acts: wife, country, one, enchanter · What happens: say, belong, be, displease, turn · To what, where: enchanter, uncles, stones · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, country, one, enchanter), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Malee | det |
| 3 | Malee | Malee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 wife | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Malee | case |
| 5 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 country | punct |
| 9 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 country | det |
| 10 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 belong | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 palace | cc |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 palace | det |
| 13 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 country | conj |
| 14 | belong | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 enchanter | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 enchanter | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 enchanter | amod |
| 18 | enchanter | enchanter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 belong | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 powerful | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 powerful | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 powerful | cop |
| 22 | all | all | ADV | _ | 23 powerful | advmod |
| 23 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 said | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 turn | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 turn | cc |
| 26 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 29 displeases | mark |
| 27 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 one | det |
| 28 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 displeases | nsubj |
| 29 | displeases | displease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 turn | advcl |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 displeases | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 displeases | punct |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 turn | nsubj |
| 33 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 turn | aux |
| 34 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | conj |
| 35 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 turn | obj |
| 36 | into | into | ADP | _ | 37 stones | case |
| 37 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 turn | obl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 trees | cc |
| 39 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 stones | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Malee's wife | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | belong in a quote | present | this country and this palace | to a great enchanter | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | country | all, powerful property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | displease a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | any one | enchanter | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | turn in a quote | can | enchanter | uncles = uncle | stones and trees | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme into stone=Trajectory |
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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