Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 121
Look, the king has taken our master's wife and house for himself.
Who acts: you, king · What happens: look, take · To what, where: wife
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, king), 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 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 taken | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 taken | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 taken | aux |
| 6 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 Look | conj |
| 7 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 master | nmod:poss |
| 8 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 master | case |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 taken | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 house | cc |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wife | conj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 himself | case |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 taken | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | imperative | you not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | take | present · perfect | the king | our master's wife and house | for house | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent wife=Theme for himself=Beneficiary |
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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