Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 33
Now Suri heard the King give this order to the servants, so she said to herself, "What shall I do to save the child?"
Who acts: Suri, King, cow · What happens: hear, give, say, do, save · To what, where: order, servants, cow, child · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Suri, King, cow), 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 | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | Suri | Suri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 give | nsubj |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 heard | ccomp |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 order | det |
| 8 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 servants | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 servants | det |
| 11 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 give | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 said | advmod |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 herself | case |
| 17 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 said | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 do | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 do | punct |
| 20 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 do | obj |
| 21 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 do | aux |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 do | nsubj |
| 23 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 heard | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 save | mark |
| 25 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 do | advcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 child | det |
| 27 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 save | obj |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 23 do | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Suri | now | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | give | infinitive | the King | this order | the servants | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent order=Theme to servant=Recipient | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | cow | cow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | do in a quote | shall | King | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | save in a quote | to-infinitive | King not said here | the child | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme |
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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