Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 21
He ordered the merchant to go back and ascertain whether his wife could recognise the young men if she saw them again.
Who acts: punishment, merchant, wife · What happens: order, go back, ascertain, recognise, see · To what, where: merchant, young men, men
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (punishment, merchant, wife), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ordered | nsubj |
| 2 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 merchant | det |
| 4 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ordered | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 ordered | xcomp |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 go | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ascertain | cc |
| 9 | ascertain | ascertain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 go | conj |
| 10 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 14 recognise | mark |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wife | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 recognise | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 recognise | aux |
| 14 | recognise | recognise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 ascertain | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 men | det |
| 16 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 men | amod |
| 17 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 recognise | obj |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 saw | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 saw | nsubj |
| 20 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 recognise | advcl |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 saw | obj |
| 22 | again | again | ADV | _ | 20 saw | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | punishment | the merchant | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent merchant=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go back not said to happen | to-infinitive | the merchant not said here | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | ascertain | infinitive | the merchant not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | recognise | could | punishment's wife | the young men | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | see a condition, not said to happen | past | wife | men = man | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
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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