Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 123
"Then let the girl be slain immediately," the king shouted.
Who acts: you, girl, king · What happens: let, slay, shout · To what, where: girl · 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, girl, king), 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 | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 let | advmod |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 girl | det |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 let | obj |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 slain | aux:pass |
| 7 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 let | xcomp |
| 8 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 3 let | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 shouted | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 shouted | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shouted | nsubj |
| 13 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 let | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | imperative | you not said here | the girl | then | immediately property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | slay in a quote | infinitive · passive | the girl not said here | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 3 | shout speech: express | past | the king | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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