Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 80

"I must go and see where the voices come from!" he said; and when his nurses told him he must not go for one year more, he only laughed aloud, saying, "Nay!

Who acts: Rasalu, voices, nurses · What happens: go, see, come, say, tell, not go · To what, where: Rasalu, more · 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 (Rasalu, voices, nurses), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 see	cc
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	conj
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 come	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 voices	det
9	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 come	nsubj
10	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 see	ccomp
11	from	from	ADP	_	10 come	obl
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 laughed	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 laughed	cc
18	when	when	SCONJ	_	21 told	mark
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 nurses	nmod:poss
20	nurses	nurse	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 told	nsubj
21	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 laughed	advcl
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 told	iobj
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 go	nsubj
24	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 go	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 go	advmod
26	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 told	ccomp
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 year	case
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 year	nummod
29	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 go	obl
30	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 go	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 told	punct
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 laughed	nsubj
33	only	only	ADV	_	34 laughed	advmod
34	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	conj
35	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	34 laughed	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 saying	punct
37	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 laughed	advcl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 Nay	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 Nay	punct
40	Nay	nay	INTJ	_	37 saying	discourse
41	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	must	Rasalu					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see in a quote	infinitive	Rasalu not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	come in a quote	present	the voices					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: express	past	Rasalu					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	tell speech: assert	past	Rasalu's nurses		Rasalu			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
6	not go	must	Rasalu	more		year		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location more=Theme
7	laugh	past	Rasalu				aloud property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	say speech: assert	gerund	Rasalu not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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