Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 90

The servants said to him, "You cannot go into the palace--the Raja's sons have all gone away; we think they must be dead, and their widows cannot be interrupted by your begging."

Who acts: servants, husband, sons, we, begging · What happens: say, not go, go away, think, be, not interrupt · To what, where: husband, palace, widows · 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 (servants, husband, sons, we), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 servants	det
2	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 go	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 go	punct
8	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 go	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 go	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 go	advmod
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 palace	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 palace	det
14	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 go	obl
15	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 gone	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Raja	det
17	Raja	Raja	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 sons	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 Raja	case
19	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 gone	nsubj
20	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 gone	aux
21	all	all	ADV	_	22 gone	advmod
22	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 go	advcl
23	away	away	ADV	_	22 gone	advmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 think	punct
25	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 think	nsubj
26	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 said	parataxis
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 dead	nsubj
28	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 dead	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 dead	cop
30	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 think	ccomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 interrupted	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 interrupted	cc
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 widows	nmod:poss
34	widows	widow	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 interrupted	nsubj:pass
35	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 interrupted	aux
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 interrupted	advmod
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 interrupted	aux:pass
38	interrupted	interrupt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 think	conj
39	by	by	ADP	_	41 begging	case
40	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 begging	nmod:poss
41	begging	begging	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 interrupted	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the servants		husband			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not go in a quote	can	husband			the palace		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into palace=Initial_Location
3	go away in a quote	present · perfect	the Raja's sons				all, away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	think speech: other in a quote	present	we					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is in a quote	must	sons = son				dead property	tree rules
6	not interrupt in a quote	can · passive	your begging	sons's widows				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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