Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 66
The Prince answered, "Let the seven Raja's sons whom you turned into rocks and trees be instantly liberated."
Who acts: Prince, you · What happens: answer, let, turn, liberate · To what, where: rocks, seven sons · 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 (Prince, you), 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 | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Let | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Let | punct |
| 6 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 answered | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sons | det |
| 8 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 sons | nummod |
| 9 | Raja | Raja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 sons | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Raja | case |
| 11 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 liberated | nsubj |
| 12 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 turned | obj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 turned | nsubj |
| 14 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 liberated | csubj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 rocks | case |
| 16 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 turned | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 trees | cc |
| 18 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 rocks | conj |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 liberated | aux:pass |
| 20 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 21 liberated | advmod |
| 21 | liberated | liberate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 Let | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Let | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the Prince | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | turn in a quote | past | you | rocks and trees | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent whom=Theme into rock=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | liberate in a quote | infinitive · passive | Raja's seven sons | instantly property | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: subject=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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