Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 42
One day the snake in course of conversation said to its master, "I am the son of Raja Indrasha.
Who acts: snake · What happens: say, be · To what, where: master, son · 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 (snake), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 snake | det |
| 4 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 course | case |
| 6 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 snake | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 conversation | case |
| 8 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 course | nmod |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 master | case |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 master | nmod:poss |
| 12 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 son | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 son | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 son | nsubj |
| 16 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 son | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 son | det |
| 18 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Raja | case |
| 20 | Raja | Raja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 son | nmod |
| 21 | Indrasha | Indrasha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Raja | flat |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the snake in course of conversation | conversation's master | day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to master=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | the snake in course of conversation = snake | the son | of Raja | tree rules |
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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