Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 39
You have a Rakshas in your stomach," said the crow, and he flew away.
Who acts: You, crow · What happens: have, say, fly away · To what, where: Rakshas, stomach, crow · 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 (You, crow), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 Rakshas | det |
| 4 | Rakshas | Rakshas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 stomach | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 stomach | nmod:poss |
| 7 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Rakshas | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 crow | det |
| 12 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 flew | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 flew | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 flew | nsubj |
| 16 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 flew | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | You | a Rakshas | your stomach | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the crow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent crow=Topic | |||||
| 3 | fly away in a quote | past | crow | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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