Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 12
Now, as Raja Rasalu, tender-hearted and strong, journeyed along to play chaupur with the King, he came to a burning forest, and a voice rose from the fire saying, "Oh, traveller! for God's sake save me from the fire!"
Who acts: king, voice rose, traveller · What happens: journey, play, come, burn, say, save · To what, where: chaupur, burning forest, voice rose, fire · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, voice rose, traveller), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 hearted | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 Rasalu | case |
| 4 | Raja | Raja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Rasalu | compound |
| 5 | Rasalu | Rasalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 hearted | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Rasalu | punct |
| 7 | tender | tender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hearted | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 tender | punct |
| 9 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 strong | cc |
| 11 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hearted | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 journeyed | punct |
| 13 | journeyed | journey | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 hearted | conj |
| 14 | along | along | ADV | _ | 13 journeyed | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 play | mark |
| 16 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 journeyed | advcl |
| 17 | chaupur | chaupur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 play | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 King | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 King | det |
| 20 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 play | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 came | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 came | nsubj |
| 23 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hearted | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 forest | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 forest | det |
| 26 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 forest | amod |
| 27 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 came | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 saying | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 saying | cc |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 rose | det |
| 31 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 rose | compound |
| 32 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 saying | nsubj |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 fire | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 fire | det |
| 35 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 rose | nmod |
| 36 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 came | advcl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 traveller | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 traveller | punct |
| 39 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 41 traveller | discourse |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 Oh | punct |
| 41 | traveller | traveller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 save | nsubj |
| 42 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 41 traveller | punct |
| 43 | for | for | ADP | _ | 46 sake | case |
| 44 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 sake | nmod:poss |
| 45 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 44 God | case |
| 46 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 save | obl |
| 47 | save | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 saying | ccomp |
| 48 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 47 save | obj |
| 49 | from | from | ADP | _ | 51 fire | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 fire | det |
| 51 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 save | obl |
| 52 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 hearted | punct |
| 53 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 hearted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | journey | participle | along property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | play | to-infinitive | chaupur | with the King | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent chaupur=Theme with king=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | come | past | king | a burning forest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | burn | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | say speech: express | gerund | a voice rose from the fire | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | save in a quote | past | traveller | a voice rose from the fire = rose | the fire | for God's sake | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Theme for sake=Asset from fire=Source |
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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