Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 7
But he said, "Take thy chariot out of the way, O charioteer!
Who acts: charioteer · What happens: say, take · To what, where: chariot, way · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (charioteer), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Take | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Take | punct |
| 6 | Take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 7 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 chariot | nmod:poss |
| 8 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Take | obj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 way | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 way | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 way | det |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Take | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 charioteer | punct |
| 14 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 15 charioteer | discourse |
| 15 | charioteer | charioteer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Take | obj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | charioteer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | take in a quote | infinitive | thy chariot | the way | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument chariot=Theme charioteer=Destination |
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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