Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 132
And he, when summoned, tried to gain time, and said, "I will tell you to-morrow," and then he was placed in a chamber by the king, and carefully guarded.
Who acts: Harisarman, king · What happens: summon, try, gain, say, tell, place · To what, where: you, Harisarman, chamber · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Harisarman, king), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7128:957): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tried | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 summoned | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 summoned | advmod |
| 5 | summoned | summon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 tried | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 summoned | punct |
| 7 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 gain | mark |
| 9 | gain | gain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 tried | xcomp |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gain | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 tried | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tell | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 tell | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 tell | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 tell | aux |
| 18 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 tell | iobj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 morrow | case |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 to | punct |
| 22 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tell | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tell | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 tell | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 placed | cc |
| 26 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 placed | advmod |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 placed | aux:pass |
| 29 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 tried | conj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 chamber | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 chamber | det |
| 32 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 placed | obl |
| 33 | by | by | ADP | _ | 35 king | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 king | det |
| 35 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 placed | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 guarded | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 guarded | cc |
| 38 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 39 guarded | advmod |
| 39 | guarded | guard | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 placed | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | summon | participle | Harisarman not said here | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | try | past | Harisarman | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | gain not said to happen | to-infinitive | Harisarman not said here | time | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Harisarman not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert in a quote | future | Harisarman | you | to morrow | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Topic to morrow=Recipient | |||
| 6 | place | past · passive | the king | Harisarman | a chamber | then | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in chamber=Destination | ||
| 7 | guard | participle | the king not said here | carefully property | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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