Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 62

But the Prince answered, "Oh no, I cannot give away my parrot, it is a great pet of mine; I have had it many years."

Who acts: Prince, parrot · What happens: answer, not give away, be, have · To what, where: parrot, great pet · 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 (Prince, parrot), 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	_	4 answered	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Prince	det
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 answered	nsubj
4	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 give	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 give	punct
7	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	13 give	discourse
8	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 Oh	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Oh	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 give	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 give	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 give	advmod
13	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 answered	ccomp
14	away	away	ADV	_	13 give	advmod
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 parrot	nmod:poss
16	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 give	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 pet	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 pet	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 pet	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 pet	det
21	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 pet	amod
22	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 give	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 mine	case
24	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 pet	nmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 had	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 had	nsubj
27	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 had	aux
28	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 give	parataxis
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 had	obj
30	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 years	amod
31	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 had	obl:unmarked
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 answered	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the Prince				tree rules
2	not give away in a quote	can	the Prince = prince	my parrot		away property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent parrot=Theme
3	is a in a quote	present	parrot	a great pet		of the Prince = prince	tree rules
4	have in a quote	present · perfect	the Prince = prince	parrot	year		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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