Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 121

Then he ordered his servants to shoot the dog at dawn, but the dog heard him, and said to himself, "What shall I do?

Who acts: King, servants, dog · What happens: order, shoot, hear, say, do · To what, where: servants, dog, King · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, servants, dog), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 ordered	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ordered	nsubj
3	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 servants	nmod:poss
5	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ordered	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 shoot	mark
7	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ordered	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dog	det
9	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shoot	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 dawn	case
11	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shoot	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 heard	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 heard	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 dog	det
15	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 heard	nsubj
16	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ordered	parataxis
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 heard	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 heard	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 himself	case
22	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 said	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 do	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 do	punct
25	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 do	obj
26	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 do	aux
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 do	nsubj
28	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 said	ccomp
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 ordered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	order	past	King	King's servants		then	vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent servant=Recipient clause=Topic
2	shoot not said to happen	to-infinitive	King's servants not said here	the dog		dawn	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme
3	hear	past	the dog	King			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
4	say speech: ask	past	the dog not said here		King		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic
5	do in a quote	shall	the dog = dog				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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