Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 42
And they let the poor old man know what they felt.
Who acts: ingrates, poor old man · What happens: let, know, feel · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (ingrates, poor old man), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 let | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 let | nsubj |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 5 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 know | nsubj |
| 8 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 let | parataxis |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 felt | obj |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 felt | nsubj |
| 11 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 know | ccomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | past | ingrates = ingrate | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | know | present | the poor old man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | feel | past | ingrates = ingrate | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
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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