Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 28
"Fair sisters!" quoth Rasalu gaily, "give me my task and I will perform it."
Who acts: Fair sisters, other nine maidens, my · What happens: quoth, give, perform, task · To what, where: Rasalu, task, other nine maidens · 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 (Fair sisters, other nine maidens, my), 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 | _ | 3 sisters | punct |
| 2 | Fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sisters | amod |
| 3 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 quoth | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 sisters | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sisters | punct |
| 6 | quoth | quoth | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Rasalu | Rasalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 quoth | obj |
| 8 | gaily | gaily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 quoth | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 give | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 give | punct |
| 11 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 quoth | parataxis |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 give | iobj |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 task | nmod:poss |
| 14 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 give | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 perform | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 perform | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 perform | aux |
| 18 | perform | perform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 give | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 perform | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 quoth | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 quoth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quoth | present | Fair sisters | Rasalu | gaily property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | give in a quote | infinitive | my task | the other nine maidens = maiden | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient task=Theme | ||||
| 3 | perform in a quote | future | the other nine maidens = maiden | task | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | task in a quote | my | nom task «act 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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