Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 104

When the corpse was not forthcoming he cuttingly remarked, "Is this, after all, the return for my deep belief in you?

Who acts: corpse, brother, my · What happens: not forthcom, remark, be, believe · To what, where: this · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (corpse, brother, my), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 forthcoming	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 corpse	det
3	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 forthcoming	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 forthcoming	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 forthcoming	advmod
6	forthcoming	forthcom	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 remarked	nsubj
8	cuttingly	cuttingly	ADV	_	9 remarked	advmod
9	remarked	remark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 forthcoming	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 remarked	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 remarked	punct
12	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 this	cop
13	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 forthcoming	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 all	punct
15	after	after	ADP	_	16 all	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 forthcoming	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 return	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 return	det
19	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 all	nmod
20	for	for	ADP	_	23 belief	case
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 belief	nmod:poss
22	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 belief	amod
23	belief	belief	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 return	nmod
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 you	case
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 belief	nmod
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 forthcoming	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not forthcom	past · progressive	the corpse		after all		tree rules
2	remark speech: ask	participle	brother			cuttingly property	vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	present		this			tree rules
4	believe in a quote		my			in you	nom belief «cognition transitive»: poss=agent in=obl

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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