Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 62
"I did," answered Laili, "and it was I who brought you to life."
Who acts: Laili, horse · What happens: do, answer, be, bring · To what, where: Laili, you, life · 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, horse), 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 | _ | 3 did | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 answered | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Laili | Laili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 brought | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 I | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 I | cop |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 brought | nsubj |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 brought | nsubj |
| 15 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 answered | conj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 brought | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 life | case |
| 18 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brought | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | past | Laili | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Laili | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | past | horse | Laili | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | bring in a quote | past | Laili | you | life | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to life=Destination |
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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