Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 90
She will never come back to you," said the father.
Who acts: Laili · What happens: not come back, say · To what, where: you, father · 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 come | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 come | advmod |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 come | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 come | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 father | det |
| 12 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not come back | future | Laili | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Laili not said here | the father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent father=Topic |
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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