Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 84

These he put on the tigers to make them beautiful, and he took them to the king, and said to him, "May these tigers fight your demons for me?" "

Who acts: These, son, tigers · What happens: put, make, take, say, fight · To what, where: coats, king, 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 (These, son, tigers), 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	These	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 put	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 put	nsubj
3	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 tigers	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tigers	det
6	tigers	tiger	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 put	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 make	mark
8	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 put	advcl
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 make	obj
10	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 make	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 took	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 took	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 took	nsubj
14	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 put	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 took	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 king	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 king	det
18	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 took	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 said	cc
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 put	parataxis
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 said	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 fight	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 fight	punct
26	May	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 fight	aux
27	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	28 tigers	det
28	tigers	tiger	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 fight	nsubj
29	fight	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 said	conj
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 demons	nmod:poss
31	demons	demon	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 fight	obj
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 me	case
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 fight	obl
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	put	past	These			on the tigers	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on tiger=Destination
2	make	to-infinitive	These not said here	coats = coat		beautiful property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product
3	take	past	son	coats = coat	the king		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to king=Destination
4	say speech: ask	past			son		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
5	fight in a quote	may	this tigers	your demons		for me	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent demon=Co-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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