Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 58
"Don't you disobey orders again!" grumbled the old hag, "or next time I'll leave you alone.
Who acts: you, old hag · What happens: do, not disobey, grumble, leave · To what, where: orders, you · 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 (you, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 grumbled | ccomp |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 disobey | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 disobey | nsubj |
| 5 | disobey | disobey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Do | advcl |
| 6 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 disobey | obj |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 disobey | advmod |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 10 | grumbled | grumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hag | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hag | amod |
| 13 | hag | hag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grumbled | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hag | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 hag | punct |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 time | cc |
| 17 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 time | amod |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hag | conj |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 leave | nsubj |
| 20 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 leave | aux |
| 21 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 time | acl:relcl |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 leave | obj |
| 23 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 21 leave | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 grumbled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | not disobey in a quote | present | you | orders | again | tree rules | |||
| 3 | grumble speech: other | past | the old hag or next time | vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | leave in a quote | future | the old hag or next time = hag | you | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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