Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 92

So the Brahman first asked a _pipal_ tree what it thought of the matter, but the _pipal_ tree replied coldly, "What have you to complain about?

Who acts: Brahman, pipal, you · What happens: ask, think, reply, have, complain · To what, where: _ pipal, tree, pipal tree · 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 (Brahman, pipal, 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 asked	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Brahman	det
3	Brahman	Brahman	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 asked	nsubj
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 asked	advmod
5	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pipal	det
7	_	_	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pipal	amod
8	pipal	pipal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 asked	obj
9	_	_	PUNCT	_	10 tree	punct
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 asked	obl
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 thought	obj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 thought	nsubj
13	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 tree	acl:relcl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 matter	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 matter	det
16	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thought	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 tree	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 tree	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 pipal	det
20	_	_	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 pipal	amod
21	pipal	pipal	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tree	compound
22	_	_	PUNCT	_	21 pipal	punct
23	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 asked	parataxis
24	replied	reply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 tree	acl
25	coldly	coldly	ADV	_	24 replied	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 have	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 have	punct
28	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 have	obj
29	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 asked	conj
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 have	nsubj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 complain	mark
32	complain	complain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 have	xcomp
33	about	about	ADV	_	32 complain	advmod
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	the Brahman	a _ pipal	tree obl; first property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pipal=Recipient
2	think speech: other	past	pipal	tree	of the matter	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
3	reply speech: assert	participle		pipal tree not said here	coldly property	vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	have in a quote	present	you			tree rules
5	complain speech: other in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here		about property	vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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