Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 36

Whereupon he laughed, saying, "There are seventy of you, counting my little bride yonder, and I am not going to spend my life swinging girls!

Who acts: Rasalu, seventy · What happens: laugh, say, be, count, not go, spend · To what, where: little bride, life, girls · 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 (Rasalu, seventy), 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	Whereupon	whereupon	ADV	PronType=Int	3 laughed	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 laughed	nsubj
3	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 saying	punct
5	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 laughed	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 are	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 are	punct
8	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 are	expl
9	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 saying	ccomp
10	seventy	seventy	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 are	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 you	case
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 seventy	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 counting	punct
14	counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 saying	conj
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 bride	nmod:poss
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 bride	amod
17	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 counting	obj
18	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	14 counting	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 going	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 going	cc
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 going	nsubj
22	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 going	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 going	advmod
24	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 laughed	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 spend	mark
26	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 going	xcomp
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 life	nmod:poss
28	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 spend	obj
29	swinging	swing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 spend	advcl
30	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 swinging	obj
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	Rasalu			whereupon property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: express	gerund	Rasalu not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	be in a quote	present	seventy of you		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	count in a quote	gerund	Rasalu not said here	my little bride		yonder property	vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Theme
5	not go in a quote	present · progressive	Rasalu				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	spend in a quote	to-infinitive	Rasalu not said here	my life			vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Asset
7	swing in a quote	gerund	Rasalu not said here	girls			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme girl=Result

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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