Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 38
And do tell me," she said, "are you quite immortal?
Who acts: you, Magician · What happens: tell, say, be · To what, where: me, quite immortal · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Magician), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 tell | cc |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 tell | aux |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | iobj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tell | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 immortal | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 immortal | punct |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 immortal | cop |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 immortal | nsubj |
| 13 | quite | quite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 immortal | amod |
| 14 | immortal | immortal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative · do-support | you not said here | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Magician | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | you | quite immortal | 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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