Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 113
"He has told me to cut a thick tree-trunk in two with a wax hatchet.
Who acts: Labam · What happens: tell, cut · To what, where: king, thick tree trunk, two · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Labam), 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 | _ | 4 told | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 told | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | aux |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 told | iobj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 cut | mark |
| 7 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 told | xcomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 trunk | det |
| 9 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 trunk | amod |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 trunk | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 tree | punct |
| 12 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cut | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 two | case |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 cut | obl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 hatchet | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 hatchet | det |
| 17 | wax | wax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hatchet | compound |
| 18 | hatchet | hatchet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cut | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present · perfect | Labam | king | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | cut not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Labam not said here | a thick tree trunk | two | with a wax hatchet | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trunk=Patient with hatchet=Instrument |
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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