Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 23

Then the eldest sister answered, "Balna, let the poor woman take the wood and the fire; she does us no harm."

Who acts: eldest sister, poor woman, woman · What happens: answer, let, take, do · To what, where: Balna, poor woman, wood, us · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (eldest sister, poor woman, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 answered	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sister	det
3	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 sister	amod
4	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 answered	nsubj
5	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Balna	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 Balna	punct
8	Balna	Balna	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 answered	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 let	punct
10	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 answered	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 woman	det
12	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 woman	amod
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 let	obj
14	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 let	xcomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wood	det
16	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 take	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 fire	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 fire	det
19	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wood	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 does	punct
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 does	nsubj
22	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 answered	conj
23	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 does	obj
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 harm	det
25	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 does	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 does	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 does	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the eldest sister	Balna	then	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	let in a quote	infinitive	the eldest sister not said here	the poor woman		tree rules
3	take in a quote	infinitive	the poor woman not said here	the wood and the fire		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme
4	do in a quote	present	woman	us		tree rules

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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