Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 127
"Let her be shut up in a cage, and be kept near the grave whence she took out the corpse," said the fakir.
Who acts: princess, fakir · What happens: let, shut up, keep, take out, say · To what, where: princess, cage, grave, corpse · 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 (princess, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 said | ccomp |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 shut | aux:pass |
| 5 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 shut | compound:prt |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 cage | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 cage | det |
| 9 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shut | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 kept | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 kept | cc |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 kept | aux:pass |
| 13 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Let | advcl |
| 14 | near | near | ADP | _ | 16 grave | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 grave | det |
| 16 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 kept | obl |
| 17 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 took | advmod |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 took | nsubj |
| 19 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 kept | advcl |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 took | compound:prt |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 corpse | det |
| 22 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 took | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 fakir | det |
| 27 | fakir | fakir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 said | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | princess | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | shut up in a quote | infinitive · passive | princess not said here | a cage | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 3 | keep in a quote | infinitive · passive | the grave | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: near grave=Location | |||||
| 4 | take out in a quote | past | princess | the corpse | whence property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corpse=Theme | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | the fakir | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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