Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 96
"I won't kill him; only let me see him," answered his wife.
Who acts: wife · What happens: not kill, let, see, answer · To what, where: son, wife · 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 (wife), 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 kill | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 kill | nsubj |
| 3 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 kill | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 kill | advmod |
| 5 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 kill | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 let | advmod |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 kill | conj |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 let | obj |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 let | xcomp |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 see | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 answered | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 answered | punct |
| 15 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 see | parataxis |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 wife | nmod:poss |
| 17 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 answered | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not kill in a quote | future | son's wife = wife | son | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | son's wife = wife not said here | son's wife = wife | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | infinitive | son's wife = wife not said here | son | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | answer speech: assert | past | son's wife | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: 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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