Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 53
"Take me, then," said Laili to Chumman Basa; so he came quite close and put out his hand to take hers to lift her off her horse.
Who acts: Laili, Chumman · What happens: take, say, come, put out, lift · To what, where: Laili, Chumman, hand · 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, Chumman), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 2 | Take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Take | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Take | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Laili | Laili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Chumman | case |
| 11 | Chumman | Chumman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 12 | Basa | Basa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Chumman | flat |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 came | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 came | nsubj |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | parataxis |
| 17 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 18 close | advmod |
| 18 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 came | xcomp |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 put | cc |
| 20 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 came | conj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 put | compound:prt |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 hand | nmod:poss |
| 23 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 put | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 take | mark |
| 25 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 put | advcl |
| 26 | hers | her | PRON | Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 take | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 lift | mark |
| 28 | lift | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 take | advcl |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 lift | obj |
| 30 | off | off | ADP | _ | 32 horse | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 horse | nmod:poss |
| 32 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lift | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | infinitive | Laili | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Laili | Chumman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to chumman=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | come | past | Chumman | close property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | put out | participle | Chumman not said here | Chumman's hand | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal | ||||
| 5 | take | to-infinitive | Chumman not said here | Laili | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument her=Destination | ||||
| 6 | lift | to-infinitive | Chumman not said here | Laili | off Laili's horse | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme off horse=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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