Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 66
Let him come in," said the king, "and put his hands upon our eyes, and we shall see again."
Who acts: you, prince, we · What happens: let, come in, say, put, see · To what, where: prince, king, hands, eyes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, prince, we), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | in | in | ADV | _ | 3 come | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | parataxis |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 king | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 king | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 put | cc |
| 13 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 hands | nmod:poss |
| 15 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 put | obj |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 eyes | case |
| 17 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 18 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 put | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 see | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 see | cc |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 see | nsubj |
| 22 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 see | aux |
| 23 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | conj |
| 24 | again | again | ADV | _ | 23 see | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | prince | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come in | infinitive | prince not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent king=Topic | |||||
| 4 | put | past | prince's hands | our eyes | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme upon eye=Destination | ||||
| 5 | see | shall | we | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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