Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 135
Please don't be angry, my lord, but what is the usual way?"
Who acts: you · What happens: do, not be, be · To what, where: lord, usual way
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 (you), 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 | Please | please | INTJ | _ | 2 do | discourse |
| 2 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 angry | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 angry | cop |
| 5 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 do | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lord | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 lord | nmod:poss |
| 8 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 do | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 way | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 way | cc |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 way | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 way | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 way | det |
| 14 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 way | amod |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 do | parataxis |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 way | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | imperative | you not said here | my lord | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not is | infinitive | you not said here | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the usual way | 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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