Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 79
"Oh, sir! what are you thinking about us?" said they.
Who acts: you, fish · What happens: be, say · 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 (you, fish), 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 | _ | 9 thinking | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 9 thinking | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Oh | vocative |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 thinking | obj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 thinking | cop |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 thinking | nsubj |
| 9 | thinking | think | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 said | ccomp |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 us | case |
| 11 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 thinking | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 thinking | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 thinking | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | you | about us; think property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | fish | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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