Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 88
Get the King to let you go to your own country, and I will tell you what to do when we get there."
Who acts: you, King, I, we · What happens: get, let, go, tell, do · To what, where: King, you, own country · 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, I, we), 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 | Get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Get | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 let | mark |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Get | xcomp |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 let | obj |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 let | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 country | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 country | nmod:poss |
| 10 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 country | amod |
| 11 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 tell | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 tell | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 tell | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 tell | aux |
| 16 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Get | conj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 tell | iobj |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 do | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 do | mark |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 tell | ccomp |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 get | advmod |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 get | nsubj |
| 23 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 do | advcl |
| 24 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 get | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Get | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | imperative | you not said here | the King | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | let | to-infinitive | the King not said here | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | you not said here | your own country | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to country=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | future | I | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||||
| 6 | get | present | we | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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