Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 68
So the prince prayed to Khuda, and Khuda said to him, "Touch Laili's clothes and they will catch fire, and when they are on fire, she and you will become young again."
Who acts: prince, Khuda, clothes · What happens: pray, say, touch, catch, be, become · To what, where: Khuda, Prince, clothes, fire · 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 (prince, Khuda, clothes), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 prayed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 prayed | nsubj |
| 4 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Khuda | case |
| 6 | Khuda | Khuda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 prayed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 9 | Khuda | Khuda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 prayed | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Touch | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Touch | punct |
| 15 | Touch | touch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | parataxis |
| 16 | Laili | Laili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 Laili | case |
| 18 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 15 Touch | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 catch | cc |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 catch | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 catch | aux |
| 22 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 Touch | conj |
| 23 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 catch | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 fire | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 fire | cc |
| 26 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 fire | advmod |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 fire | nsubj |
| 28 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 fire | cop |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 fire | case |
| 30 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 prayed | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 become | punct |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 become | nsubj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 become | cc |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 become | nsubj |
| 35 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 become | aux |
| 36 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 prayed | conj |
| 37 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 become | xcomp |
| 38 | again | again | ADV | _ | 36 become | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 36 become | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 become | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | past | the prince | Khuda | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Khuda | Prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | touch in a quote | infinitive | Laili's clothes | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme clothes=Co-Theme | |||||
| 4 | catch in a quote | future | clothes | fire | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | clothes | fire | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | become in a quote | future | Khuda | again | young property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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