Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 91

Then she went to them, and told them, and they consented to let her and her husband leave them.

Who acts: wife, horses, husband · What happens: go, tell, consent, let, leave · To what, where: horses, wife · 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 (wife, horses, husband), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 went	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 told	cc
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	iobj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 consented	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 consented	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 consented	nsubj
13	consented	consent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 let	mark
15	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 consented	ccomp
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 let	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 leave	cc
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 husband	nmod:poss
19	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 leave	nsubj
20	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 let	conj
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 leave	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	go	past	wife		horses = horse	then	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial_Location
2	tell speech: assert	past	wife not said here		horses = horse		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
3	consent	past	horses = horse				vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	let	to-infinitive	horses = horse not said here	wife			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
5	leave	infinitive	wife's husband	horses = horse			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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