Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 41
Then the lad answered, according to the old hag's bidding, "I want your skin, for King Indra is making a new kettle-drum, and says your skin is nice and tough."
Who acts: lad, King Indra, skin, old hag · What happens: answer, accord, want, make, say, be · To what, where: bidding, skin, new kettle drum · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lad, King Indra, skin, old hag), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 answered | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lad | det |
| 3 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 according | punct |
| 6 | according | accord | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 answered | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 bidding | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hag | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hag | amod |
| 10 | hag | hag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bidding | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 hag | case |
| 12 | bidding | bidding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 according | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 want | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 want | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 want | nsubj |
| 16 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 answered | conj |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 skin | nmod:poss |
| 18 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 want | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 making | punct |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 making | mark |
| 21 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Indra | compound |
| 22 | Indra | Indra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 making | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 making | aux |
| 24 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 want | advcl |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 drum | det |
| 26 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 drum | amod |
| 27 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 drum | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 kettle | punct |
| 29 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 making | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 says | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 says | cc |
| 32 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 answered | parataxis |
| 33 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 skin | nmod:poss |
| 34 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 nice | nsubj |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 nice | cop |
| 36 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 says | ccomp |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 tough | cc |
| 38 | tough | tough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 nice | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 36 nice | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the lad | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | accord | gerund | the lad not said here | to the old hag's bidding goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to bidding=Goal | ||||
| 3 | want in a quote | present | the lad = lad | your skin | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot skin=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make in a quote | present · progressive | King Indra | a new kettle drum | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drum=Product | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | your skin | nice property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | be in a quote | your skin not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | bid | the old hag | nom bidding «communication transitive»: poss=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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