Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 86
Then call your demons," said the Raja's son, "and these tigers will fight them."
Who acts: tigers · What happens: call, say, fight · To what, where: demons, son · 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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 call | advmod |
| 2 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 demons | nmod:poss |
| 4 | demons | demon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 call | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 call | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 call | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Raja | det |
| 9 | Raja | Raja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 son | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Raja | case |
| 11 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 fight | cc |
| 15 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 tigers | det |
| 16 | tigers | tiger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 fight | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 fight | aux |
| 18 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | conj |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 fight | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 fight | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 fight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | infinitive | your demons | then | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent demon=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the Raja's son | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fight | future | this tigers | demons = demon | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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