Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 121
Poor Laili answered, "Don't you know me?
Who acts: Poor Laili, you · What happens: answer, not know · To what, where: Poor Laili · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Poor Laili, 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 | Poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Laili | amod |
| 2 | Laili | Laili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
| 6 | Do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 know | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 know | advmod |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 know | nsubj |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 answered | conj |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 know | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: ask | past | Poor Laili | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not know in a quote | infinitive · do-support | you | Poor Laili = laili | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/12/121/