Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 102

He then told her what she must do as a little dog to regain her human form.

Who acts: Dantal, dog · What happens: tell, do, regain, form · To what, where: dog, human form · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dantal, dog), 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 told	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 told	advmod
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 do	obj
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 do	nsubj
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 do	aux
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	xcomp
9	as	as	ADP	_	12 dog	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 dog	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 dog	amod
12	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 regain	mark
14	regain	regain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 do	advcl
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 form	nmod:poss
16	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 form	amod
17	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 regain	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Dantal		dog	then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	do not said to happen	must	dog				as a little dog	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	regain	to-infinitive	dog not said here	dog's human form				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme
4	form		dog					nom form «communication transitive»: poss=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.

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