Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 44

"How can I tell?" said the jackal. "

Who acts: jackal · What happens: tell, say · 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 (jackal), 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	_	5 tell	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 tell	advmod
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 jackal	det
10	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	can	the jackal = jackal						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: ask	past	the jackal						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that 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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