Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 64
"But it must be so, Your Majesty," replied the vizier; "and in order to prove the truth of what I have heard, I pray you to call together all the maids in your palace, and order them to jump over a pit, which must be dug.
Who acts: vizier, Majesty · What happens: be, reply, prove, hear, pray, call together · To what, where: vizier, truth, you, maids, palace, pit · 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 (vizier, Majesty), 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 | _ | 12 replied | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 so | cc |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 so | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 so | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 so | cop |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 replied | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Majesty | punct |
| 8 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 9 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 replied | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Majesty | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Majesty | punct |
| 12 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 vizier | det |
| 14 | vizier | vizier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 replied | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 prove | cc |
| 18 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 21 prove | mark |
| 19 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 in | fixed |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 prove | mark |
| 21 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 replied | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 truth | det |
| 23 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 prove | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 what | case |
| 25 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 truth | nmod |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 heard | nsubj |
| 27 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 heard | aux |
| 28 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 what | acl:relcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 pray | punct |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 pray | nsubj |
| 31 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 prove | parataxis |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 pray | obj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 call | mark |
| 34 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 pray | advcl |
| 35 | together | together | ADV | _ | 34 call | advmod |
| 36 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 maids | det:predet |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 maids | det |
| 38 | maids | maid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 call | obj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 palace | case |
| 40 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 palace | nmod:poss |
| 41 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 maids | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 order | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 order | cc |
| 44 | order | order | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 prove | conj |
| 45 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 order | obj |
| 46 | to | to | PART | _ | 47 jump | mark |
| 47 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 order | xcomp |
| 48 | over | over | ADP | _ | 50 pit | case |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 pit | det |
| 50 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 jump | obl |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 dug | punct |
| 52 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 55 dug | nsubj:pass |
| 53 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 55 dug | aux |
| 54 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 55 dug | aux:pass |
| 55 | dug | dig | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 50 pit | acl:relcl |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | must | vizier | so property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Your Majesty | the vizier | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent vizier=Topic | ||||
| 3 | prove in a quote | to-infinitive | Your Majesty not said here | the truth | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hear in a quote | present · perfect | Your Majesty = majesty | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | pray in a quote | present | Your Majesty = majesty | you | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | call together speech: assert in a quote | to-infinitive | Your Majesty = majesty not said here | all maids | your palace | together property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent maid=Recipient | ||
| 7 | order in a quote | infinitive | Your Majesty not said here | maids = maid | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 8 | jump not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Your Majesty not said here | a pit | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over pit=Trajectory | ||||
| 9 | dig in a quote | must · passive | a pit | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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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