Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 126
Manikkasari requested me to see him without failure on my return journey.
Who acts: Manikkasari, my · What happens: request, see, journey · To what, where: me, Manikkasari, return journey
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Manikkasari, my), 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 | Manikkasari | Manikkasari | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 requested | nsubj |
| 2 | requested | request | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 requested | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 see | mark |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 requested | advcl |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 see | obj |
| 7 | without | without | ADP | _ | 8 failure | case |
| 8 | failure | failure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 see | obl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 journey | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 journey | nmod:poss |
| 11 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 journey | compound |
| 12 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 see | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 requested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | request | past | Manikkasari | me | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | Manikkasari not said here | Manikkasari | my return journey | without failure | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||
| 3 | journey | my | nom journey «act 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/14/126/