Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 77
The Raja's son answered, "The king has ordered me to fight with his two demons and kill them.
Who acts: son, king · What happens: answer, order, fight, kill · To what, where: son, demons · 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 (son, king), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Raja | det |
| 2 | Raja | Raja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Raja | case |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | nsubj |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ordered | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 ordered | punct |
| 8 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ordered | nsubj |
| 10 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 ordered | aux |
| 11 | ordered | order | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 answered | parataxis |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 ordered | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 fight | mark |
| 14 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 ordered | xcomp |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 demons | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 demons | nmod:poss |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 demons | nummod |
| 18 | demons | demon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 fight | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 kill | cc |
| 20 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 fight | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 kill | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the Raja's son | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | order in a quote | present · perfect | the king | the Raja's son = son | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | fight not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the king not said here | with son's two demons | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with demon=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | kill in a quote | infinitive | the king not said here | demons = demon | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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