Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 22
Sisters, don't give this woman any more wood; let her buy it for herself."
Who acts: Sisters, woman · What happens: not give, let, buy · To what, where: woman, wood
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sisters, woman), 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 | Sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 give | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sisters | punct |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 give | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 give | advmod |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 woman | det |
| 7 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obj |
| 8 | any | any | ADV | _ | 9 more | advmod |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 wood | advmod |
| 10 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 let | punct |
| 12 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 give | conj |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 let | obj |
| 14 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 let | xcomp |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 buy | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 herself | case |
| 17 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 buy | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not give | infinitive · do-support | Sisters | this woman | wood obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme | |||
| 2 | let | infinitive | Sisters not said here | woman | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | buy | infinitive | woman not said here | wood | for woman | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Theme for herself=Beneficiary |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/9/22/