Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 34

"You foolish thing, I knew it would be so," said the cat. "

Who acts: You, cat, thing · What happens: thing, know, be, say · To what, where: foolish thing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, cat, thing), 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 thing	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 thing	nsubj
3	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thing	amod
4	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 knew	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 knew	nsubj
7	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thing	acl:relcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 so	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 so	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 so	cop
11	so	so	ADV	_	7 knew	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 knew	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 thing	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cat	det
16	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	thing in a quote		You			tree rules
2	know in a quote	past	the cat = cat	foolish thing not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
3	is in a quote	would	thing		so property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	the cat			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that 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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