Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 58

Away, away flew the little eagles, till they came to their home in the great tree; then the Prince said to the old eagles, "Take back your little ones; they have done me good service; if ever again I stand in need of help, I will not fail to come to you."

Who acts: genii, Prince · What happens: fly, come, say, take back, do, stand · To what, where: little eagles, great tree, old eagles, little ones, good service, Prince · 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 (genii, Prince), 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	Away	away	ADV	_	4 flew	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Away	punct
3	away	away	ADV	_	4 flew	advmod
4	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 eagles	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 eagles	amod
7	eagles	eagle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 flew	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct
9	till	till	SCONJ	_	11 came	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 flew	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 home	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 home	nmod:poss
14	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 tree	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 tree	det
17	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 tree	amod
18	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 said	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Prince	det
22	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 said	nsubj
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 flew	conj
24	to	to	ADP	_	27 eagles	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 eagles	det
26	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 eagles	amod
27	eagles	eagle	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 said	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Take	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 Take	punct
30	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 said	ccomp
31	back	back	ADV	_	30 Take	advmod
32	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 ones	nmod:poss
33	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 ones	amod
34	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 Take	obj
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 done	punct
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 done	nsubj
37	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 done	aux
38	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 flew	conj
39	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 done	iobj
40	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 service	amod
41	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 done	obj
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 stand	punct
43	if	if	SCONJ	_	45 again	mark
44	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	45 again	advmod
45	again	again	ADV	_	47 stand	advmod
46	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 stand	nsubj
47	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 flew	parataxis
48	in	in	ADP	_	49 need	case
49	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 stand	obl
50	of	of	ADP	_	51 help	case
51	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 need	nmod
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 fail	punct
53	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	56 fail	nsubj
54	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 fail	aux
55	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	56 fail	advmod
56	fail	fail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 stand	conj
57	to	to	PART	_	58 come	mark
58	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	56 fail	xcomp
59	to	to	ADP	_	60 you	case
60	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	58 come	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 flew	punct
62	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past		the little eagles				away property	tree rules
2	come	past	genii			the great tree		to genii's home	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to home=Initial_Location
3	say speech: assert	past	the Prince		the old eagles		then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to eagle=Recipient clause=Topic
4	take back in a quote	infinitive		your little ones					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
5	do in a quote	present · perfect	genii	good service	the Prince = prince				tree rules
6	stand in a quote	present	the Prince = prince			need of help	again		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in need=Location
7	not fail in a quote	future	the Prince = prince						vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	come in a quote	to-infinitive	the Prince = prince not said here		the old eagles = eagle				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial_Location
9	need in a quote			help					nom need «state transitive»: of=patient

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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