Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 127
"Well," said the old woman, "you may stay here to-night; but to-morrow morning you must go away, for if the king hears you have passed the night in my house, he will have me seized and put into prison."
Who acts: old woman, you, king · What happens: say, stay, go away, hear, pass, have · To what, where: house, old woman, prison · 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 (old woman, you, king), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 woman | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 woman | amod |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stay | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 stay | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 stay | nsubj |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 stay | aux |
| 13 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | conj |
| 14 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 stay | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 night | case |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 to | punct |
| 17 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stay | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 go | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 go | cc |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 morning | case |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 to | punct |
| 22 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 morning | compound |
| 23 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 go | obl |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 go | nsubj |
| 25 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 go | aux |
| 26 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | parataxis |
| 27 | away | away | ADV | _ | 26 go | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 hears | punct |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 hears | case |
| 30 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 33 hears | mark |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 king | det |
| 32 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 hears | nsubj |
| 33 | hears | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 go | advcl |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 passed | nsubj |
| 35 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 passed | aux |
| 36 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 33 hears | ccomp |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 night | det |
| 38 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 house | case |
| 40 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 house | nmod:poss |
| 41 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 passed | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 have | punct |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 have | nsubj |
| 44 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 have | aux |
| 45 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 go | conj |
| 46 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 have | obj |
| 47 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 45 have | xcomp |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 put | cc |
| 49 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 47 seized | conj |
| 50 | into | into | ADP | _ | 51 prison | case |
| 51 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 put | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 53 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the old woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | stay in a quote | may | you | here | night | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | go away in a quote | must | you | morning | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | hear a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | the king | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | pass in a quote | present · perfect | you | my house | night | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in house=Location | |||
| 6 | have in a quote | future | King | the old woman = woman | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | seize in a quote | participle | the old woman = woman not said here | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | put in a quote | participle | the old woman = woman not said here | prison | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=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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