Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 68
"We must remain here," replied the cat, "as our master ordered.
Who acts: We, cat, master · What happens: remain, reply, order · 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, cat, master), 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 | _ | 4 remain | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 remain | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 remain | aux |
| 4 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 replied | ccomp |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 remain | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 remain | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 remain | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cat | det |
| 10 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 ordered | mark |
| 14 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 master | nmod:poss |
| 15 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ordered | nsubj |
| 16 | ordered | order | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 replied | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain in a quote | must | We | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the cat | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | order in a quote | participle | our master | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
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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