Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 73
Let us go in the direction of the sound, and find out what it is."
Who acts: you, us, sound · What happens: let, go, find out, be · To what, where: us, direction · 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 (you, us, sound), 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 | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 direction | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 direction | det |
| 6 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 sound | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sound | det |
| 9 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 direction | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 find | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 find | cc |
| 12 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 find | compound:prt |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 is | obj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 is | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 find | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 18 | " | " | 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 | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | us not said here | the direction of the sound | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in direction=Location | ||||
| 3 | find out | infinitive | you not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | be | present | sound | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
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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