Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 119

I was in the cage--no I wasn't--dear! dear! where are my wits?

Who acts: I, dear · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: cage

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 (I, dear), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 cage	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cage	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 cage	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cage	det
5	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	--	--	PUNCT	_	12 dear	punct
7	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	12 dear	discourse
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 dear	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 dear	cop
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 dear	advmod
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	12 dear	punct
12	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cage	parataxis
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 dear	punct
14	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 where	nsubj
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 dear	punct
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 dear	conj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 where	cop
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 wits	nmod:poss
19	wits	wit	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 are	nsubj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 cage	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	I	the cage		tree rules
2	not is	past	I		dear property	tree rules
3	is	present	dear		where property	tree rules

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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