Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 82
"Yes, indeed, sir! what _are_ we to do?" said they.
Who acts: we · What happens: do, 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 (we), 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 | _ | 6 sir | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 sir | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 6 sir | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 indeed | punct |
| 6 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | ccomp |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 sir | punct |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 said | obj |
| 9 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 said | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 _ | cop |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 do | punct |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 do | nsubj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 do | mark |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 _ | appos |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 do | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 do | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 said | nsubj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | we | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=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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