Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 42

On hearing this the Fakir said, "King! these are not your sons; go and bring those children who are eating their food in the cellar."

Who acts: Fakir, these, children · What happens: hear, say, not be, go, bring, eat · To what, where: this, King, sons, children, food, cellar · 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 (Fakir, these, children), 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	On	on	SCONJ	_	2 hearing	mark
2	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 said	advcl
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 hearing	obj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Fakir	det
5	Fakir	Fakir	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 King	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 King	punct
9	King	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 sons	punct
11	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	15 sons	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 sons	cop
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 sons	advmod
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 sons	nmod:poss
15	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 said	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct
17	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 bring	cc
19	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 go	conj
20	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	21 children	det
21	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 bring	obj
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 eating	nsubj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 eating	aux
24	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 children	acl:relcl
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 food	nmod:poss
26	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 eating	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 cellar	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 cellar	det
29	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 eating	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	hear	gerund	the Fakir not said here	this			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	say speech: express	past	the Fakir	King			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not is a in a quote	present	these	your sons			tree rules
4	go in a quote	infinitive					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	bring in a quote	infinitive			that children		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument child=Destination
6	eat in a quote	present · progressive	that children	children's food		the cellar	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=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.

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