Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 39
"No, no," said Laili; "it belongs to a bad Raja, Chumman Basa, a very wicked man."
Who acts: Laili, garden · What happens: say, belong · 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 (Laili, garden), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 2 No | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Laili | Laili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 belongs | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 belongs | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 belongs | nsubj |
| 12 | belongs | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Raja | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 Raja | det |
| 15 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Raja | amod |
| 16 | Raja | Raja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 belongs | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Chumman | punct |
| 18 | Chumman | Chumman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Raja | appos |
| 19 | Basa | Basa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Chumman | flat |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 man | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 man | det |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 wicked | advmod |
| 23 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 man | amod |
| 24 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 belongs | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 man | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Laili | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | belong in a quote | present | garden | to a bad Raja | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
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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