Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 57
So the next day the King placed his sepoys all round the stable, and he took up his stand with them; and he said he would himself shoot any one who let his horse escape.
Who acts: next day, King, one · What happens: place, take up, say, shoot, let, escape · To what, where: sepoys, stand, one, horse escape · 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 (next day, King, one), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 placed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 placed | nsubj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 day | appos |
| 7 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 sepoys | nmod:poss |
| 9 | sepoys | sepoy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 placed | obj |
| 10 | all | all | ADV | _ | 13 stable | advmod |
| 11 | round | round | ADP | _ | 13 stable | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 stable | det |
| 13 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 placed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 took | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 took | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 took | nsubj |
| 17 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 placed | conj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 took | compound:prt |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 stand | nmod:poss |
| 20 | stand | stand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 took | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 took | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 said | cc |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 said | nsubj |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 placed | conj |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 shoot | nsubj |
| 28 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 shoot | aux |
| 29 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 30 shoot | nsubj |
| 30 | shoot | shoot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 said | ccomp |
| 31 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 32 one | det |
| 32 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 shoot | obj |
| 33 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 let | nsubj |
| 34 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 one | acl:relcl |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 escape | nmod:poss |
| 36 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 escape | compound |
| 37 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 let | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past | the next day | King's sepoys | round the stable | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent sepoy=Theme | |||
| 2 | take up | past | King | King's stand | with sepoys = sepoy | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stand=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | shoot | would | King | any one | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 5 | let | past | any one | King's horse escape | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent escape=Theme | ||||
| 6 | escape | King | nom escape «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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