Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 40
Let us rather invite her to come and have some of the fruit."
Who acts: you, us, mother · What happens: let, invite, come, have · To what, where: mother, some
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 (you, us, mother), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 invite | nsubj |
| 3 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 4 invite | advmod |
| 4 | invite | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | parataxis |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 invite | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 come | mark |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 invite | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 have | cc |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 come | conj |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 have | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 fruit | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fruit | det |
| 13 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 some | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | invite | present | us | mother | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | come not said to happen | to-infinitive | mother not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | have | infinitive | mother not said here | some | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient |
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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