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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

advmoddetamodnsubjdetapposnmod:possobjadvmodcasedetoblpunctccnsubjconjcompound:prtnmod:possobjcaseoblpunctccnsubjconjnsubjauxnsubjccompdetobjnsubjacl:relclnmod:posscompoundobjpunctrootSoADVtheDETnextADJdayNOUNtheDETKingPROPNplacedVERBhisPRONsepoysNOUNallADVroundADPtheDETstableNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJhePRONtookVERBupADPhisPRONstandNOUNwithADPthemPRON;PUNCTandCCONJhePRONsaidVERBhePRONwouldAUXhimselfPRONshootVERBanyDEToneNOUNwhoPRONletVERBhisPRONhorseNOUNescapeNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SosoADV_7 placedadvmod
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 daydet
3nextnextADJDegree=Pos4 dayamod
4daydayNOUNNumber=Sing7 placednsubj
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 Kingdet
6KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing4 dayappos
7placedplaceVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
8hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs9 sepoysnmod:poss
9sepoyssepoyNOUNNumber=Plur7 placedobj
10allallADV_13 stableadvmod
11roundroundADP_13 stablecase
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 stabledet
13stablestableNOUNNumber=Sing7 placedobl
14,,PUNCT_17 tookpunct
15andandCCONJ_17 tookcc
16hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs17 tooknsubj
17tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 placedconj
18upupADP_17 tookcompound:prt
19hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs20 standnmod:poss
20standstandNOUNNumber=Sing17 tookobj
21withwithADP_22 themcase
22themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs17 tookobl
23;;PUNCT_26 saidpunct
24andandCCONJ_26 saidcc
25hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 saidnsubj
26saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 placedconj
27hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs30 shootnsubj
28wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin30 shootaux
29himselfhimselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes30 shootnsubj
30shootshootVERBVerbForm=Inf26 saidccomp
31anyanyDETPronType=Ind32 onedet
32oneoneNOUNNumber=Sing30 shootobj
33whowhoPRONPronType=Rel34 letnsubj
34letletVERBMood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin32 oneacl:relcl
35hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs37 escapenmod:poss
36horsehorseNOUNNumber=Sing37 escapecompound
37escapeescapeNOUNNumber=Sing34 letobj
38..PUNCT_7 placedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1placepastthe next dayKing's sepoysround the stablevn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent sepoy=Theme
2take uppastKingKing's standwith sepoys = sepoyvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stand=Theme
3say speech: assertpastKingvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4shootwouldKingany onevn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
5letpastany oneKing's horse escapevn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent escape=Theme
6escapeKingnom 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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