Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 44
But come, let us get outside before the elephants arrive and batter down the place."
Who acts: you, us, elephants · What happens: come, let, get, arrive, batter down · To what, where: us, place
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, elephants), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 come | cc |
| 2 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 come | conj |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 let | obj |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 let | xcomp |
| 7 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 6 get | advmod |
| 8 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 11 arrive | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 elephants | det |
| 10 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 arrive | nsubj |
| 11 | arrive | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | advcl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 batter | cc |
| 13 | batter | batter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 arrive | conj |
| 14 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 batter | compound:prt |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 place | det |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 batter | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 come | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | imperative | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get | infinitive | us not said here | outside property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | arrive | present | the elephants | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | batter down | present | the elephants not said here | the place | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient |
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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