Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 64
"No," said Laili, "for he is a wicked man, and will try to do you harm."
Who acts: Laili, man · What happens: say, be, try, do, harm · To what, where: you · 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, man), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Laili | Laili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 man | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 man | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 man | case |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 man | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 man | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 13 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Laili | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 try | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 try | cc |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 try | aux |
| 18 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 do | mark |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 try | xcomp |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 do | iobj |
| 22 | harm | harm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 do | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | 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 | is in a quote | present | man | for a wicked man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | try in a quote | future | Laili not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | do not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Laili not said here | you | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | harm in a quote | infinitive | Laili not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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