Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 145

At last he reached his Granny's house, and said, all in a great hurry, "Granny, dear, I've promised to get very fat; so, as people ought to keep their promises, please put me into the corn-bin _at once_."

Who acts: Lambikin, people · What happens: reach, say, promise, get, keep, put · To what, where: house, last, Lambikin, promises, corn bin · 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 (Lambikin, people), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reached	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reached	nsubj
4	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 house	nmod:poss
6	Granny	Granny	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 house	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Granny	case
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reached	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reached	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 all	punct
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 said	ccomp
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 hurry	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 hurry	det
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hurry	amod
17	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 all	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hurry	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 Granny	punct
20	Granny	Granny	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 hurry	appos
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 dear	punct
22	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Granny	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 promised	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 promised	nsubj:pass
25	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 promised	aux
26	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 said	ccomp
27	to	to	PART	_	28 get	mark
28	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 promised	xcomp
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 fat	advmod
30	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 get	xcomp
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 keep	punct
32	so	so	ADV	_	38 keep	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 keep	punct
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 keep	mark
35	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 keep	nsubj
36	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 keep	aux
37	to	to	PART	_	38 keep	mark
38	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 reached	advcl
39	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 promises	nmod:poss
40	promises	promise	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 keep	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 put	punct
42	please	please	INTJ	_	43 put	discourse
43	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 keep	conj
44	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 put	obj
45	into	into	ADP	_	49 bin	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 bin	det
47	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 bin	compound
48	-	-	PUNCT	_	47 corn	punct
49	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 put	obl
50	_	_	PUNCT	_	49 bin	punct
51	at	at	ADP	_	52 once	case
52	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	43 put	obl
53	_	_	PUNCT	_	43 put	punct
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 reached	punct
55	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	Lambikin	Lambikin's house	last		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent house=Theme at last=Asset
2	say speech: assert	past	Lambikin not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	promise speech: promise in a quote	present · perfect · passive		Lambikin			vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
4	get not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive				fat property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	keep in a quote	ought	people	people's promises			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme
6	put in a quote	infinitive	people not said here	Lambikin	the corn bin		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme at once=Destination
7	promise in a quote		people				nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=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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