Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 90

Very well," said his wife; "I will tell my father and mother, and ask them to let us go."

Who acts: I, us · What happens: say, tell, ask, let, go · To what, where: wife, father, horses, us · 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 (I, us), 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	Very	very	ADV	_	2 well	advmod
2	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 well	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wife	nmod:poss
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 tell	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 tell	aux
12	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 father	nmod:poss
14	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tell	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 mother	cc
16	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 father	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ask	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 ask	cc
19	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 tell	conj
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 ask	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 let	mark
22	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 ask	xcomp
23	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 let	obj
24	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 let	xcomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past		prince's wife		well property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	future	I		my father and mother		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent father=Recipient
3	ask speech: ask	infinitive	I not said here		horses = horse		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
4	let not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	us			tree rules
5	go	infinitive	us not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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