Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 93
"I came to greet thee, King, and not to harm thee!
Who acts: women · What happens: come, greet, not harm · To what, where: King, thee
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 (women), 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 | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 greet | mark |
| 5 | greet | greet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 came | advcl |
| 6 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 greet | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 King | punct |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 harm | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 harm | cc |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 harm | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 harm | mark |
| 13 | harm | harm | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 14 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 harm | obj |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | past | the women = woman | King | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | greet speech: greet in a quote | to-infinitive | the women = woman not said here | thee | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not harm in a quote | to-infinitive | the women = woman not said here | thee | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thou=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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