Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 3
When he said this to the maid, she consented, and departed quickly.
Who acts: Harisarman, maid · What happens: say, consent, depart · To what, where: this, maid · 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 (Harisarman, maid), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 consented | advcl |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 said | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 maid | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 maid | det |
| 7 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 consented | nsubj |
| 10 | consented | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 departed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 departed | cc |
| 13 | departed | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 consented | conj |
| 14 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 13 departed | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 consented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Harisarman | this | the maid | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Topic to maid=Recipient | |||
| 2 | consent | past | maid | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | depart | past | maid not said here | quickly property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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