Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 106

I had his demons killed by the tigers.

Who acts: I · What happens: have, kill · To what, where: demons

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 demons	nmod:poss
4	demons	demon	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
5	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 demons	acl
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 tigers	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tigers	det
8	tigers	tiger	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 killed	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	I	son's demons					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent demon=Patient
2	kill	participle		son's demons not said here				by the tigers	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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