Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 92

And when they heard what he said, they exclaimed, "All right, sir!

Who acts: fish, Crane · What happens: hear, say, exclaim · 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 (fish, Crane), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	10 exclaimed	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 heard	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 exclaimed	advcl
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 heard	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 what	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 exclaimed	nsubj
10	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sir	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 sir	punct
13	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 sir	det
14	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sir	amod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 right	punct
16	sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 exclaimed	vocative
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	hear	past	fish		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	Crane		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	exclaim speech: express	past	fish	all right sir vocative	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

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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