Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 1

"Come," he wrote back to the vizier's son, "and stay at the palace.

Who acts: you, he · What happens: come, write back, stay · To what, where: son, palace

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, he), 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 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wrote	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 wrote	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wrote	nsubj
6	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Come	advcl
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 wrote	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	12 son	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 vizier	det
10	vizier	vizier	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 son	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 vizier	case
12	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wrote	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 stay	cc
16	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Come	conj
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 palace	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 palace	det
19	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stay	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	roles by
1	come in a quote	imperative	you not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	write back	past	he	the vizier's son		vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent to son=Recipient
3	stay in a quote	infinitive	you not said here		the palace	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at palace=Location

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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