Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 126
"But is there no way of escape from the hands of these people?" she asked.
Who acts: way · What happens: be, ask · 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 (way), 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 | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 is | cc |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 asked | ccomp |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 way | det |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 escape | case |
| 8 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 way | nmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 hands | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hands | det |
| 11 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 escape | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 people | case |
| 13 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 14 people | det |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 hands | nmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 asked | nsubj |
| 18 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | no way of escape from the hands of this people | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | way | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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