Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 65
Then Punchkin got frightened, and said, "Anything, anything; name what price you will, and it shall be yours."
Who acts: Punchkin, price · What happens: get, frighten, say, name, be · To what, where: Anything, yours · 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 (Punchkin, price), 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 | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | Punchkin | Punchkin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 got | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Anything | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Anything | punct |
| 10 | Anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 anything | punct |
| 12 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 Anything | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 name | punct |
| 14 | name | name | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | parataxis |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 name | obj |
| 16 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 will | nsubj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 will | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 what | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 yours | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 yours | cc |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 yours | nsubj |
| 22 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 yours | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 yours | cop |
| 24 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 got | parataxis |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Punchkin | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | frighten | participle | Punchkin not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Punchkin not said here | Anything | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic | ||||
| 4 | name in a quote | infinitive | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | shall | price | yours | 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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