Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 136
Oh! let me go, let me go," cried the terrified rat. "
Who acts: you, me, terrified rat · What happens: let, go, cry · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here
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, me, terrified rat), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 3 let | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 let | obj |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 let | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 let | punct |
| 7 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 let | conj |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 let | obj |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 let | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 let | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 rat | det |
| 14 | terrified | terrified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 rat | amod |
| 15 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cried | nsubj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | me not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | you not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | infinitive | me not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | the terrified rat | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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