Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 127
"Yes," replied the cat, "if you can tell me where the charmed ring is."
Who acts: cat, you, charmed ring · What happens: reply, tell, be, charm · To what, where: cat · 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 (cat, you, charmed ring), 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 | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cat | det |
| 7 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tell | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 tell | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 tell | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 tell | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 tell | aux |
| 13 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 replied | conj |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 tell | iobj |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 tell | ccomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ring | det |
| 17 | charmed | charm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 ring | amod |
| 18 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 where | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 where | cop |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the cat | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | can | you | the cat = cat | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the charmed ring | where property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | charm in a quote | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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