Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 125
Let us send her to the fakir who discovered this thing, that he may do whatever he wishes with her."
Who acts: you, us, fakir · What happens: let, send, discover, do, wish · To what, where: us, girl, thing, whatever
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, us, fakir), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 send | iobj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 fakir | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fakir | det |
| 7 | fakir | fakir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 send | obl |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 discovered | nsubj |
| 9 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fakir | acl:relcl |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 thing | det |
| 11 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 discovered | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 do | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 do | nsubj |
| 15 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 do | aux |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | conj |
| 17 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 wishes | obj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 wishes | nsubj |
| 19 | wishes | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 do | ccomp |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 her | case |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 wishes | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | send | infinitive | us not said here | girl | to the fakir | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to fakir=Destination | |||
| 3 | discover | past | the fakir | this thing | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | ||||
| 4 | do | may | fakir | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | wish | present | fakir | whatever | with girl | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot whatever=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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