Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 81

But he never even looked at them, and drawing the dice from his pocket, said to Sarkap, "We have played with your dice all this time; now we will play with mine."

Who acts: Raja, We · What happens: not look, draw, say, play · To what, where: dice, pocket, Sarkap · 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 (Raja, We), 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	_	5 looked	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 looked	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 looked	advmod
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 looked	advmod
5	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 looked	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
10	drawing	draw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 said	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dice	det
12	dice	dice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 drawing	obj
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 pocket	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 pocket	nmod:poss
15	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 drawing	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 drawing	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 looked	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 Sarkap	case
19	Sarkap	Sarkap	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 said	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 played	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 played	punct
22	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 played	nsubj
23	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 played	aux
24	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 said	conj
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 dice	case
26	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 dice	nmod:poss
27	dice	dice	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 played	obl
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 time	det:predet
29	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 time	det
30	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 played	obl:unmarked
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 play	punct
32	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 play	advmod
33	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 play	nsubj
34	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 play	aux
35	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	ccomp
36	with	with	ADP	_	37 mine	case
37	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 play	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 play	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 play	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not look	participle	Raja					at arms = arm	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme
2	draw	gerund		the dice		Raja's pocket			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent dice=Theme from pocket=Initial_Location
3	say speech: assert	past	Raja not said here		Sarkap				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to sarkap=Recipient clause=Topic
4	play in a quote	present · perfect	We				time	with your dice	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with dice=Theme
5	play in a quote	future	we				now	with Raja	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with my=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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