Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 112
"Call the king hither," he replied, "and then I will tell his Majesty face to face."
Who acts: you, prince, finished devotions · What happens: call, reply, tell · To what, where: king, Majesty face, face · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, prince, finished devotions), 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 Call | punct |
| 2 | Call | call | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Call | obj |
| 5 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 2 Call | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 replied | nsubj |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Call | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Call | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Call | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 tell | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 tell | advmod |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 tell | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 tell | aux |
| 16 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Call | conj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 face | nmod:poss |
| 18 | Majesty | Majesty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 face | compound |
| 19 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tell | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 face | case |
| 21 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tell | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Call | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call in a quote | imperative | you not said here | the king | hither property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | prince | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | future | prince's finished devotions = devotion | prince's Majesty face | face | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent face=Topic to face=Recipient |
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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