Indian Fairy Tales, XVI. the Son of Seven Queens., sentence 14
The "letter to kill bearer" and "letter substituted" are frequent in both European (see my List _s. v._) and Indian Folk-Tales (Temple, Analysis, II. iv.
Who acts: letter, my · What happens: kill, substitute, be, see, list · To what, where: bearer, letter, List
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVI. the Son of Seven Queens.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (letter, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 letter | det |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 letter | punct |
| 3 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 frequent | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 kill | mark |
| 5 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 letter | acl |
| 6 | bearer | bearer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kill | obj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 bearer | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 letter | cc |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 letter | punct |
| 10 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bearer | conj |
| 11 | substituted | substitute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 letter | acl |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 substituted | punct |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 frequent | cop |
| 14 | frequent | frequent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 19 see | mark |
| 16 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 European | advmod |
| 17 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 see | advmod |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 see | punct |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 frequent | advcl |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 List | nmod:poss |
| 21 | List | list | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 see | obj |
| 22 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 39 iv | punct |
| 23 | s. | S. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 iv | compound |
| 24 | v. | V. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 s. | flat |
| 25 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 23 s. | punct |
| 26 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 s. | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 Tales | cc |
| 28 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 Tales | amod |
| 29 | Folk | Folk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Tales | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 Folk | punct |
| 31 | Tales | Tale | PROPN | Number=Plur | 23 s. | conj |
| 32 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 33 Temple | punct |
| 33 | Temple | Temple | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Tales | appos |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 Analysis | punct |
| 35 | Analysis | Analysis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Temple | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 II | punct |
| 37 | II | II | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 33 Temple | flat |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 Temple | punct |
| 39 | iv | iv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 see | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 frequent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill in a quote | to-infinitive | the letter not said here | bearer and letter | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bearer=Theme | ||||
| 2 | substitute in a quote | participle | letter not said here | vn substitute-13.6.2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | present | the letter | frequent property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | infinitive | the letter not said here | my List | s. iv obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer list=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | list | my | nom list «communication transitive»: poss=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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