Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 57
I shall there call in all the tigers and serpents, and give them a general order."
Who acts: I · What happens: call, give · To what, where: general order, serpents · 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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 call | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 call | aux |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 call | advmod |
| 4 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 tigers | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 tigers | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tigers | det |
| 8 | tigers | tiger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 call | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 serpents | cc |
| 10 | serpents | serpent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 tigers | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 give | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 give | cc |
| 13 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 call | conj |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 give | iobj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 order | det |
| 16 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 order | amod |
| 17 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 give | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 call | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | shall | I | there | in all tigers and serpents | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | give | infinitive | I not said here | a general order | serpents = serpent | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient order=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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