Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 67
The King could not shoot any of his sepoys for letting his horse escape, for he himself had let him do so.
Who acts: King, horse · What happens: not shoot, let, do, escape · To what, where: any, horse escape, horse
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 (King, horse), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 shoot | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 shoot | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 shoot | advmod |
| 5 | shoot | shoot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 shoot | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 sepoys | case |
| 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 | 6 any | nmod |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 letting | mark |
| 11 | letting | let | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 shoot | advcl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 escape | nmod:poss |
| 13 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 escape | compound |
| 14 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 letting | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 let | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 let | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 let | nsubj |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 17 he | nmod:unmarked |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 let | aux |
| 20 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 shoot | parataxis |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 let | obj |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 let | xcomp |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 do | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shoot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not shoot | could | the King | any | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Theme | ||||
| 2 | let | gerund | the King not said here | King's horse escape | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent escape=Theme | ||||
| 3 | let | past | King | horse | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do | infinitive | horse not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | 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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