Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 48

But no one can do the things the king tells him to do; so all the Rajas and Rajas' sons who have tried have been put to death.

Who acts: one, king, things, sons · What happens: do, tell, try, put · To what, where: things, son, Rajas · 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 (one, king, things, sons), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 do	cc
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 one	det
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 things	det
7	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tells	nsubj
10	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 things	acl:relcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tells	iobj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 do	mark
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 tells	xcomp
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 put	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	28 put	advmod
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 Rajas	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Rajas	det
18	Rajas	raja	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 put	nsubj:pass
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sons	cc
20	Rajas	raja	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 sons	nmod:poss
21	'	's	PART	_	20 Rajas	case
22	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 Rajas	conj
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 tried	nsubj
24	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 tried	aux
25	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 sons	acl:relcl
26	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 put	aux
27	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 put	aux:pass
28	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 do	parataxis
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 death	case
30	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 put	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	do	can	no one	the things			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
2	tell speech: assert	present	the king	the things not said here	son		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	the things not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	try	present · perfect	Rajas's sons				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	put	present · perfect · passive		all Rajas and Rajas's sons		to death	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal

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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