Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 33
Some time passed, and one day the Fakir appeared, and said, "King! bring me that son of yours!"
Who acts: time, Fakir · What happens: pass, appear, say, bring · To what, where: King, Fakir · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, Fakir), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 appeared | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 appeared | cc |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 day | nummod |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 appeared | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Fakir | det |
| 9 | Fakir | Fakir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 appeared | nsubj |
| 10 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 appeared | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 King | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 King | punct |
| 16 | King | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 bring | punct |
| 18 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 bring | obj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 yours | mark |
| 21 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 yours | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 yours | case |
| 23 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 bring | conj |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 bring | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | participle | some time | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | appear | past | the Fakir | day | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | the Fakir not said here | King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | bring in a quote | infinitive | the Fakir = fakir | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination |
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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