Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 92
Then the stupid servants let him walk through the palace, but they did not know that this was no Fakir, but a wicked Magician named Punchkin.
Who acts: stupid servants, husband, servants, this, wicked Magician · What happens: let, walk, not know, be, name · To what, where: husband, palace, Fakir · 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 (stupid servants, husband, servants, this), 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 | 5 let | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 servants | det |
| 3 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 servants | amod |
| 4 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 let | nsubj |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 let | obj |
| 7 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 let | xcomp |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 palace | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 palace | det |
| 10 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 walk | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 know | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 know | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 know | nsubj |
| 14 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 know | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 know | advmod |
| 16 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 let | conj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 Fakir | mark |
| 18 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 Fakir | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 Fakir | cop |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 Fakir | det |
| 21 | Fakir | fakir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 know | ccomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 named | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 named | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 Magician | det |
| 25 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Magician | amod |
| 26 | Magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 named | nsubj |
| 27 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 Fakir | parataxis |
| 28 | Punchkin | Punchkin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 named | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | infinitive | the stupid servants | husband | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | walk | infinitive | husband not said here | the palace | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through palace=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | not know | past · do-support | servants = servant | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | this | no Fakir | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | name | participle | a wicked Magician | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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