Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 14
Be careful not to say anything about us in the hearing of the princess."
Who acts: you, princess · What happens: be, not say, hear · To what, where: anything, hearing · 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, princess), 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 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 2 careful | cop |
| 2 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 say | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 say | mark |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 careful | xcomp |
| 6 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 say | obj |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 us | case |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 anything | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 hearing | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hearing | det |
| 11 | hearing | hearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 princess | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 princess | det |
| 14 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hearing | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 careful | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 careful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | imperative | you not said here | careful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not say speech: assert | to-infinitive | you not said here | anything | the hearing of the princess | about us | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent anything=Theme in hearing=Manner | ||
| 3 | hear | the princess | nom hearing «act intransitive»: of=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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