Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 117

To-morrow," she said, "when no one is near you, you must say to the tree-trunk, 'The Princess Labam commands you to let yourself be cut in two by this hair.'

Who acts: princess, one, you, Princess Labam, yourself · What happens: say, be, command, let, cut · To what, where: morrow, tree trunk, you, yourself, 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 (princess, one, you, Princess 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	To	to	ADP	_	3 morrow	case
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 To	punct
3	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 morrow	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 morrow	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 you	mark
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 one	det
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 you	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 you	cop
14	near	near	ADP	_	15 you	case
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 said	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 say	punct
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 say	nsubj
18	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 say	aux
19	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	parataxis
20	to	to	ADP	_	24 trunk	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 trunk	det
22	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 trunk	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 tree	punct
24	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 say	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 commands	punct
26	'	'	PUNCT	_	30 commands	punct
27	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Labam	det
28	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Labam	compound
29	Labam	Labam	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 commands	nsubj
30	commands	command	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 say	parataxis
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 commands	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 let	mark
33	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 commands	advcl
34	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 let	obj
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 cut	aux:pass
36	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 let	xcomp
37	in	in	ADP	_	38 two	case
38	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 let	obl
39	by	by	ADP	_	41 hair	case
40	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	41 hair	det
41	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 let	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 say	punct
43	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	princess		morrow			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to morrow=Recipient clause=Topic
2	is	present	no one				near you	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	must	you		the tree trunk			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to trunk=Recipient
4	command	present	the Princess Labam	you				vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Theme
5	let	to-infinitive	the Princess Labam not said here	yourself		two	by this hair	tree rules
6	cut	infinitive · passive	yourself not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»

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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