Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 95
But she said, "My husband, I fear, is dead, but my little boy is still quite young; I will stay here and teach him to grow up a clever man, and when he is grown up he shall go out into the world, and try and learn tidings of his father.
Who acts: Magician, husband, little boy · What happens: say, fear, be, stay, teach, grow up · To what, where: husband, clever man, boy, world, tidings · 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 (Magician, husband, little boy), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 dead | punct |
| 6 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 husband | nmod:poss |
| 7 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dead | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fear | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 fear | nsubj |
| 10 | fear | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 husband | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 husband | punct |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 dead | cop |
| 13 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 said | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 young | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 young | cc |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 boy | nmod:poss |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 boy | amod |
| 18 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 young | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 young | cop |
| 20 | still | still | ADV | _ | 22 young | advmod |
| 21 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 22 young | advmod |
| 22 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 said | advcl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 stay | punct |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 stay | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 stay | aux |
| 26 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | conj |
| 27 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 stay | advmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 teach | cc |
| 29 | teach | teach | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 26 stay | conj |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 teach | obj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 grow | mark |
| 32 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 teach | xcomp |
| 33 | up | up | ADP | _ | 32 grow | compound:prt |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 man | det |
| 35 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 man | amod |
| 36 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 grow | obl:unmarked |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 go | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 go | cc |
| 39 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 42 grown | advmod |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 grown | nsubj |
| 41 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 grown | aux:pass |
| 42 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 46 go | nsubj |
| 43 | up | up | ADP | _ | 42 grown | compound:prt |
| 44 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 go | nsubj |
| 45 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 go | aux |
| 46 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 stay | conj |
| 47 | out | out | ADV | _ | 46 go | advmod |
| 48 | into | into | ADP | _ | 50 world | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 world | det |
| 50 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 go | obl |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 try | punct |
| 52 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 try | cc |
| 53 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 26 stay | conj |
| 54 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 learn | cc |
| 55 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 53 try | conj |
| 56 | tidings | tiding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 55 learn | obj |
| 57 | of | of | ADP | _ | 59 father | case |
| 58 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 59 father | nmod:poss |
| 59 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 tidings | nmod |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Magician | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | fear in a quote | present | Magician | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | My husband | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | my little boy | still | young property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | stay in a quote | future | Magician | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | teach speech: other in a quote | infinitive | Magician not said here | husband | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 7 | grow up in a quote | to-infinitive | Magician not said here | a clever man | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | grow up in a quote | present · passive | boy | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 9 | go out in a quote | shall | the world | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 10 | try in a quote | infinitive | Magician not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 11 | learn in a quote | infinitive | Magician not said here | tidings of husband's father | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tiding=Topic |
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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