Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 47
Your sons will get to know of my coming here to-day, and will inquire about it.
Who acts: sons, my · What happens: get, know, come, inquire · 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 (sons, my), 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 sons | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 get | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | aux |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 know | mark |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 get | xcomp |
| 7 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 9 coming | mark |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 coming | nsubj |
| 9 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 know | ccomp |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 coming | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 day | case |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 to | punct |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 coming | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 inquire | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 inquire | cc |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 inquire | aux |
| 17 | inquire | inquire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 get | conj |
| 18 | about | about | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 inquire | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | future | Your sons | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | know | to-infinitive | Your sons not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | come | gerund | my | here | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | inquire speech: other | future | Your sons not said here | about gravel | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about it=Topic |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/29/47/