Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 122
"I come from a far country," he said; "do let me stay with you to-night."
Who acts: man · What happens: come, say, let, stay · To what, where: far country, man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 come | nsubj |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 country | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 country | det |
| 6 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 country | amod |
| 7 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 come | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 let | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 let | punct |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 let | aux |
| 15 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 let | obj |
| 17 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 let | xcomp |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 you | case |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 stay | obl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 night | case |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 to | punct |
| 22 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stay | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 let | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present | man | a far country | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from country=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive · do-support | man | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | stay in a quote | infinitive | man not said here | night | with you | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with you=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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