Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 117

"Uncle!" cried the crab, "the pond lies that way, but you are taking me this way!"

Who acts: Uncle, pond, you · What happens: cry, lie, take · To what, where: crab, way, Uncle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Uncle, pond, you), 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 Uncle	punct
2	Uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Uncle	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Uncle	punct
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 crab	det
7	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lies	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 lies	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pond	det
11	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lies	nsubj
12	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cried	conj
13	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 way	det
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lies	obl:unmarked
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 taking	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 taking	cc
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 taking	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 taking	aux
19	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 lies	advcl
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 taking	obj
21	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 way	det
22	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 taking	obl:unmarked
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	19 taking	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 lies	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Uncle	the crab			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crab=Topic
2	lie in a quote	present	the pond	that way			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	take in a quote	present · progressive	you		Uncle	this way obl:unmarked	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination

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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