Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 64
She then said, "To save my life, you must kill the seven daughters of your first wife, and put some of their blood on my forehead and on the palms of my hands, and their death will be my life."
Who acts: Ranee, you, death, lives · What happens: say, save, kill, put, be, die · To what, where: life, seven daughters, some, forehead · 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 (Ranee, you, death, lives), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 save | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 save | punct |
| 6 | To | to | PART | _ | 7 save | mark |
| 7 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 life | nmod:poss |
| 9 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 save | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 kill | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 kill | nsubj |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 kill | aux |
| 13 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 save | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 daughters | det |
| 15 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 daughters | nummod |
| 16 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 kill | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 wife | case |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 wife | nmod:poss |
| 19 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 wife | amod |
| 20 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 daughters | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 put | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 put | cc |
| 23 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 save | conj |
| 24 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 put | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 blood | case |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 blood | nmod:poss |
| 27 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 some | nmod |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 forehead | case |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 30 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 put | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 palms | cc |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 palms | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 palms | det |
| 34 | palms | palm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 forehead | conj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 hands | case |
| 36 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 hands | nmod:poss |
| 37 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 palms | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 life | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 life | cc |
| 40 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 death | nmod:poss |
| 41 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 life | nsubj |
| 42 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 life | aux |
| 43 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 45 life | cop |
| 44 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 life | nmod:poss |
| 45 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | ccomp |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 45 life | punct |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 45 life | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Ranee | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | save in a quote | to-infinitive | my life | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | |||||
| 3 | kill in a quote | must | you | the seven daughters of your first wife | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme | ||||
| 4 | put in a quote | infinitive | some | my forehead and the palms of my hands | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme on forehead=Destination | ||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | future | lives's death | my life | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | die in a quote | lives = life | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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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