Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 114
O master!" they said, "stay your hand.
Who acts: words · What happens: say, stay · To what, where: hand · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words), 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 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 2 master | discourse |
| 2 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | ccomp |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 master | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 master | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stay | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 stay | punct |
| 9 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hand | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stay | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | words = word | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | stay | infinitive | your hand | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme hand=Location |
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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