Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 37
Get the swing," she said to one of the servants standing by.
Who acts: you, Gulizar, servants · What happens: get, say, stand by · To what, where: swing, one · 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, Gulizar, servants), 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 | Get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 swing | det |
| 3 | swing | swing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Get | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Get | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Get | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Get | parataxis |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 one | case |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 said | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 servants | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 servants | det |
| 12 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 one | nmod |
| 13 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 servants | acl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 standing | fixed |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | imperative | you not said here | the swing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Gulizar | one of the servants | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to one=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | stand by in a quote | gerund | the servants not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «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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