Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 28
The other said, "Well, for the nonce, they shall be faults, if you like!
Who acts: other, Kosala, you · What happens: say, be, like · To what, where: faults · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other, Kosala, you), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 other | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 faults | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 faults | punct |
| 6 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 15 faults | discourse |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Well | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 nonce | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 nonce | det |
| 10 | nonce | nonce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 faults | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 nonce | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 faults | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 faults | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 faults | cop |
| 15 | faults | fault | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 said | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 like | punct |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 like | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 like | nsubj |
| 19 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | the other | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | shall | Kosala | faults | for the nonce | tree rules | |||
| 3 | like a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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