Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 81

Take off their coats," he said, "and then you will see for yourselves that each of them has the mark of a thief on his back."

Who acts: you, King, each · What happens: take off, say, see, have, mark · To what, where: coats, yourselves, thief · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, King, each), 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	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 Take	compound:prt
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 coats	nmod:poss
4	coats	coat	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Take	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Take	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Take	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 see	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 see	advmod
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 see	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 see	aux
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Take	conj
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 yourselves	case
17	yourselves	yourself	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 see	obl
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 has	obj
19	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	22 has	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 each	nmod
22	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 yourselves	acl:relcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 mark	det
24	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 has	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 thief	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 thief	det
27	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 mark	nmod
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 back	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 back	nmod:poss
30	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 thief	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Take	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take off	imperative	you not said here	thieves's coats			tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	King				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	see	future	you		then	for yourselves	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	have	present	each	yourselves			tree rules
5	mark			a thief on King's back			nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/24/81/