Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 26
But the other sixty-nine maidens, being jealous, laughed scornfully at her, saying, "Not so fast, oh gallant warrior!
Who acts: other nine maidens · What happens: be, laugh, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other nine maidens), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 laughed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 maidens | det |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 maidens | amod |
| 4 | sixty | sixty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 nine | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 sixty | punct |
| 6 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 maidens | nummod |
| 7 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 laughed | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 jealous | punct |
| 9 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 jealous | cop |
| 10 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 maidens | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 jealous | punct |
| 12 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | scornfully | scornfully | ADV | _ | 12 laughed | advmod |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 laughed | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 saying | punct |
| 17 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 laughed | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fast | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 fast | punct |
| 20 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 fast | advmod |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 fast | advmod |
| 22 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 saying | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fast | punct |
| 24 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 22 fast | discourse |
| 25 | gallant | gallant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 warrior | amod |
| 26 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fast | conj |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | jealous property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | laugh | past | the other nine maidens | at bride; scornfully property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | the other nine maidens not said here | fast property | 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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