Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 2
He will come too near the horse's hoof, and, full of anger, I shall call to my wife, 'Take the baby; take him!'
Who acts: boy, I · What happens: come, call, take · To what, where: hoof, wife, baby, boy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, I), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 come | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | aux |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 3 come | advmod |
| 5 | near | near | ADP | _ | 9 hoof | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 horse | det |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hoof | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 horse | case |
| 9 | hoof | hoof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 come | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 full | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 full | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 full | punct |
| 13 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 come | parataxis |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 anger | case |
| 15 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 full | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 call | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 call | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 call | aux |
| 19 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 full | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 wife | case |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 wife | nmod:poss |
| 22 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 call | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Take | punct |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 Take | punct |
| 25 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 19 call | parataxis |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 baby | det |
| 27 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Take | obj |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 take | punct |
| 29 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | parataxis |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 take | obj |
| 31 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 29 take | punct |
| 32 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | future | boy | the horse's hoof | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near hoof=Location | ||||
| 2 | call speech: assert | shall | I | my wife | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | take | infinitive | the baby | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme | |||||
| 4 | take | infinitive | boy | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
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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