Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 99

"My dear sir," said the road, "how foolish you are to expect anything else!

Who acts: dear sir, you · What happens: say, be, expect · To what, where: road, anything · 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 (dear sir, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 sir	nmod:poss
3	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sir	amod
4	sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sir	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 sir	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 road	det
9	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 foolish	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 foolish	punct
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 foolish	advmod
13	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	conj
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 foolish	nsubj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 foolish	cop
16	to	to	PART	_	17 expect	mark
17	expect	expect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 foolish	advcl
18	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	17 expect	obj
19	else	else	ADV	_	18 anything	advmod
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	past	My dear sir	the road		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent road=Topic
2	is in a quote	present	you		foolish property	tree rules
3	expect in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	anything		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=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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