Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 46
"Tell him, father, that our beams are strong enough, and then he will come in.
Who acts: father, beams, farmer, our · What happens: tell, be, come in, beam · To what, where: father · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, beams, farmer, our), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tell | punct |
| 2 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Tell | iobj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 father | punct |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Tell | iobj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 strong | punct |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 strong | mark |
| 8 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 beams | nmod:poss |
| 9 | beams | beam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 strong | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 strong | cop |
| 11 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Tell | ccomp |
| 12 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 11 strong | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 come | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 come | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 come | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 come | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 come | aux |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Tell | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADV | _ | 18 come | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | imperative | father not said here | father | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient father=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | our beams | enough, strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come in in a quote | future | farmer | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | beam in a quote | our | nom beam «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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