Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 33
One day the Rani, his mother, said to him, "You can hunt wherever you like on these three sides; but you must never go to the fourth side."
Who acts: Rani, Raja · What happens: say, hunt, like, not go · To what, where: Raja, three sides, fourth side · 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 (Rani, Raja), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Rani | det |
| 4 | Rani | Rani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mother | punct |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mother | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Rani | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Rani | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hunt | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 hunt | punct |
| 14 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 hunt | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 hunt | aux |
| 16 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | conj |
| 17 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 like | advmod |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 like | nsubj |
| 19 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 hunt | ccomp |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 sides | case |
| 21 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 23 sides | det |
| 22 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 sides | nummod |
| 23 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 like | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 go | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 go | cc |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 go | nsubj |
| 27 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 go | aux |
| 28 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 29 go | advmod |
| 29 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 side | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 side | det |
| 32 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 33 side | amod |
| 33 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 go | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 go | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Rani | Raja | day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | hunt in a quote | can | Raja | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | like in a quote | present | Raja | this three sides | wherever property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||
| 4 | not go in a quote | must | Raja | the fourth side | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to side=Initial_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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