Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 85
Yes," said the king, who did not care in the least who killed his demons, provided they were killed. "
Who acts: king · What happens: say, not care, kill, provide · To what, where: least, 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 (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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 said | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 care | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 care | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 care | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 care | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 care | advmod |
| 11 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 12 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 16 killed | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 least | det |
| 14 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 killed | obl |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 killed | nsubj |
| 16 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 care | ccomp |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 demons | nmod:poss |
| 18 | demons | demon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 killed | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 provided | punct |
| 20 | provided | provide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 killed | conj |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 killed | aux:pass |
| 23 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 provided | ccomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 care | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 care | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | not care in a quote | past · do-support | the king | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | kill in a quote | past | the least | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent demon=Theme | |||||
| 4 | provide in a quote | past | vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition clause=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | kill in a quote | past · passive | demons = demon | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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