Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 32
In this treatment of the old woman I see her request that you will go and see her during the coming dark fortnight."
Who acts: I, request, woman · What happens: see, go, come, treat, request · To what, where: request, treatment, woman, old woman
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 (I, request, woman), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 treatment | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 treatment | det |
| 3 | treatment | treatment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 see | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 woman | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 woman | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 woman | amod |
| 7 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 treatment | nmod |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 see | nsubj |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 request | nmod:poss |
| 11 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 see | obj |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 go | nsubj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 go | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 go | aux |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 request | acl:relcl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 see | cc |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 go | conj |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 see | obj |
| 19 | during | during | ADP | _ | 23 fortnight | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fortnight | det |
| 21 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 fortnight | amod |
| 22 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 fortnight | amod |
| 23 | fortnight | fortnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 see | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 see | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | I | woman's request | this treatment of the old woman | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer request=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | go | future | woman's request | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | woman's request not said here | woman | fortnight | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | come | gerund | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | treat | the old woman | nom treatment «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | request | woman | nom request «communication transitive»: poss=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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