Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 64
"Sir," replied the Prince, "I will not sell my parrot."
Who acts: Sir · What happens: reply, not sell · To what, where: Prince, parrot · 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 (Sir), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sir | punct |
| 2 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sir | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sir | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Prince | det |
| 7 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sell | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 sell | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 sell | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 sell | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 sell | advmod |
| 13 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 replied | ccomp |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 parrot | nmod:poss |
| 15 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sell | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 sell | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 sell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Sir | the Prince | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not sell in a quote | future | Sir | my parrot | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parrot=Theme |
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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