Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 145
"Very well, we agree," said they all. "
Who acts: we · What happens: agree, say · 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 (we), 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 | _ | 6 agree | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 well | advmod |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 agree | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 agree | punct |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 agree | nsubj |
| 6 | agree | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 agree | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 agree | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 all | nsubj |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 said | ccomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree in a quote | present | we | well property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that 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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