Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 123

"No," she answered, "I cannot let you stay with me; for our king has ordered that men from other countries may not stay in his country.

Who acts: woman, you, king, men · What happens: answer, not let, stay, order, not stay · To what, where: you, country · 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 (woman, you, king, men), 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	_	6 answered	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 answered	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 answered	nsubj
6	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 let	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 let	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 let	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 let	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 let	advmod
12	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 answered	ccomp
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 let	obj
14	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 let	xcomp
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 me	case
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 stay	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 ordered	punct
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 ordered	mark
19	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 king	nmod:poss
20	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ordered	nsubj
21	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 ordered	aux
22	ordered	order	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 answered	parataxis
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 stay	mark
24	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 stay	nsubj
25	from	from	ADP	_	27 countries	case
26	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 countries	amod
27	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 men	nmod
28	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 stay	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 stay	advmod
30	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 ordered	xcomp
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 country	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 country	nmod:poss
33	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stay	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	woman				tree rules
2	not let in a quote	can	woman	you			tree rules
3	stay in a quote	infinitive	you not said here			with woman	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with i=Location
4	order in a quote	present · perfect	our king				vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not stay not said to happen, in a quote	may	men from other countries		man's country		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=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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