Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 36

Suri said to this horse, "Katar, will you take care of something that I want to give you, because the King has ordered me to be killed to-morrow?"

Who acts: Suri, horse, King · What happens: say, take, want, give, order, kill · To what, where: horse, care, Suri · 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, horse, 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	Suri	Suri	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 horse	case
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 horse	det
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Katar	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 Katar	punct
8	Katar	Katar	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 horse	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 take	punct
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 take	aux
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 take	nsubj
12	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
13	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 take	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 something	case
15	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 take	obl
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 want	obj
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 want	nsubj
18	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 something	acl:relcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 give	mark
20	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 want	xcomp
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 give	iobj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 ordered	punct
23	because	because	SCONJ	_	27 ordered	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 King	det
25	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 ordered	nsubj
26	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 ordered	aux
27	ordered	order	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 take	advcl
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 ordered	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	31 killed	mark
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 killed	aux:pass
31	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 ordered	xcomp
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 morrow	case
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 to	punct
34	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 killed	obl
35	?	?	PUNCT	_	27 ordered	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	Suri		this horse		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to horse=Recipient clause=Topic
2	take in a quote	future	this horse = horse	care		of something	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of something=Initial_Location
3	want in a quote	present	Suri				tree rules
4	give not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Suri not said here		this horse = horse		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
5	order in a quote	present · perfect	the King		Suri		vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
6	kill not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive · passive	the King not said here			to morrow	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»

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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