Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 24
Laili took off his turban and wound it all round herself like a sari (for she had no clothes at all on), and then she called King Dantal, and said to him sadly, "Why has Majnun fallen down like this?
Who acts: Laili · What happens: take off, wound, have, call, say, fall down · To what, where: turban, clothes, all, Rakshas · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Laili), 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 | Laili | Laili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 took | compound:prt |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 turban | nmod:poss |
| 5 | turban | turban | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wound | cc |
| 7 | wound | wound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 took | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 wound | obj |
| 9 | all | all | ADV | _ | 11 herself | advmod |
| 10 | round | round | ADP | _ | 11 herself | case |
| 11 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 wound | obl |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 sari | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 sari | det |
| 14 | sari | sari | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wound | obl |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 had | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 had | case |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 had | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | parataxis |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 clothes | det |
| 20 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 18 had | obj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 all | case |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 had | obl |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 had | obl |
| 24 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 had | punct |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 called | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 called | cc |
| 27 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 called | advmod |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 called | nsubj |
| 29 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 30 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Dantal | compound |
| 31 | Dantal | Dantal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 called | xcomp |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 said | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 said | cc |
| 34 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 fallen | parataxis |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 him | case |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 said | obl |
| 37 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 34 said | advmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 has | punct |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 has | punct |
| 40 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 41 has | advmod |
| 41 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 fallen | aux |
| 42 | Majnun | Majnun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 has | obj |
| 43 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 took | conj |
| 44 | down | down | ADP | _ | 43 fallen | compound:prt |
| 45 | like | like | ADP | _ | 46 this | case |
| 46 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 43 fallen | obl |
| 47 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take off | past | Laili | Rakshas's turban | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turban=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wound | infinitive | Laili not said here | turban | round Laili; like a sari | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | have | past | Laili | no clothes | all | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient | |||
| 4 | call | past | Laili | then | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | say speech: ask | past | Rakshas | sadly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | fall down in a quote | present · perfect | Laili not said here | like this | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=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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