Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 28
But Laili said she did not care; she must see Prince Majnun. "
Who acts: Laili · What happens: say, not care, see · To what, where: Majnun · 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 (Laili), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | Laili | Laili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 care | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 care | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 care | advmod |
| 7 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 see | nsubj |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 see | aux |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 12 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Majnun | nmod:desc |
| 13 | Majnun | Majnun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 see | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Laili | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not care | past · do-support | Laili | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | see | must | Laili | Majnun Prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer majnun=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.
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