Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 67
Then, feeling he could not kill them, the Raja spoke kindly to them, and told them to come out into the jungle with him; and there he made a fire and cooked some rice, and gave it to them.
Who acts: Raja, thing · What happens: feel, not kill, speak, tell, come out, make · To what, where: daughters, jungle, fire, rice, Raja · 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 (Raja, thing), 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 | 3 feeling | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 spoke | advcl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 kill | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 kill | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 kill | advmod |
| 7 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 feeling | ccomp |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 kill | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 feeling | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Raja | det |
| 11 | Raja | Raja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 spoke | nsubj |
| 12 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 12 spoke | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 spoke | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 told | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 told | cc |
| 18 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 spoke | conj |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 told | iobj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 come | mark |
| 21 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 told | xcomp |
| 22 | out | out | ADV | _ | 21 come | advmod |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 jungle | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 jungle | det |
| 25 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 come | obl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 come | obl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 made | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 made | cc |
| 30 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 made | advmod |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 made | nsubj |
| 32 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 spoke | parataxis |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 fire | det |
| 34 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 made | obj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 cooked | cc |
| 36 | cooked | cook | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 made | conj |
| 37 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 38 rice | det |
| 38 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 cooked | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 gave | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 gave | cc |
| 41 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 made | conj |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 gave | obj |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 them | case |
| 44 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 gave | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | gerund | the Raja not said here | then | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not kill | could | thing | daughters = daughter | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | the Raja | daughters = daughter | kindly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to they=Co-Agent | |||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | the Raja not said here | daughters = daughter | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | come out not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Raja not said here | the jungle | with thing; out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||
| 6 | make | past | thing | a fire | there | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product | |||
| 7 | cook | past | thing not said here | some rice | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent rice=Patient | ||||
| 8 | give | past | thing not said here | Raja | daughters = daughter | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to they=Recipient |
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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