Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 104

How very confusing!" said the jackal, when the recital was ended; "would you mind telling me over again, for everything has got so mixed up?"

Who acts: recital, you, everything · What happens: say, be, mind, tell over, get, mix up · To what, where: jackal, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (recital, you, everything), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 confusing	advmod
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 confusing	advmod
3	confusing	confusing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	advcl
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 confusing	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 confusing	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 jackal	det
8	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ended	punct
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 ended	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 recital	det
12	recital	recital	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ended	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 ended	cop
14	ended	ended	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 jackal	parataxis
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 mind	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 mind	punct
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 mind	aux
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 mind	nsubj
19	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
20	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 mind	xcomp
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 telling	iobj
22	over	over	ADP	_	20 telling	compound:prt
23	again	again	ADV	_	20 telling	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 got	punct
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	28 got	mark
26	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	28 got	nsubj
27	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 got	aux
28	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 mind	parataxis
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 mixed	advmod
30	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 got	xcomp
31	up	up	ADP	_	30 mixed	compound:prt
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	28 got	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 mind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past		the jackal				tree rules
2	is in a quote	past	the recital				ended property	tree rules
3	mind	would	you					vn care-88.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	tell over speech: assert	gerund	you not said here		me	again		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
5	get	present · perfect	everything					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	mix up	participle	everything not said here					vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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