Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 137
He said: "O Tongue, what is this that you have done through your greediness?
Who acts: Harisarman, you · What happens: say, be, do · To what, where: this, greediness · 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 (Harisarman, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 Tongue | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Tongue | punct |
| 5 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 6 Tongue | discourse |
| 6 | Tongue | Tongue | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 what | punct |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 Tongue | conj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 this | cop |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 what | nsubj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 done | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 done | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 done | aux |
| 14 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 what | advcl |
| 15 | through | through | ADP | _ | 17 greediness | case |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 greediness | nmod:poss |
| 17 | greediness | greediness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 done | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | Harisarman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | this | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present · perfect | you | your greediness | vn act-114-1 «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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