Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 106

"It's very odd," said he, sadly, "but it all seems to go in at one ear and out at the other!

Who acts: recital, Jackal · What happens: be, say, seem, go in · To what, where: recital, one ear · 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, 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 odd	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 odd	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 odd	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 odd	advmod
5	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 odd	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 odd	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sadly	punct
11	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	8 said	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sadly	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 seems	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 seems	cc
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 seems	expl
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 it	det
17	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 sadly	advcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 go	mark
19	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 seems	xcomp
20	in	in	ADV	_	19 go	advmod
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 ear	case
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 ear	nummod
23	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 go	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 out	cc
25	out	out	ADV	_	23 ear	conj
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 other	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 other	det
28	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 go	obl
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	recital			odd property	tree rules
2	say speech: express	past	Jackal			sadly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	seem in a quote	present	Jackal not said here	recital			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	go in in a quote	to-infinitive	Jackal not said here		one ear	at the other	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at ear=Location

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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