Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 70
Oh," they said, "do drum on it just to see if the King really will come to you."
Who acts: daughters, King · What happens: say, drum, see, come · To what, where: you · 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 (daughters, King), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 drum | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 drum | punct |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 drum | aux |
| 9 | drum | drum | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 drum | obl |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 see | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 see | mark |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 drum | advcl |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 come | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 King | det |
| 17 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 come | nsubj |
| 18 | really | really | ADV | _ | 20 come | advmod |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 come | aux |
| 20 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 see | ccomp |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 you | case |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 come | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 drum | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 drum | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | daughters = daughter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | drum | present · do-support | on matter | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent on it=Patient | |||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | come a condition, not said to happen | future | the King | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial_Location |
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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