Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 25
"Perhaps I can," said the poor man, smiling, "for _I_ am Ram!
Who acts: poor man · What happens: say, smile, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor man), 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 | _ | 4 can | punct |
| 2 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 4 can | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 can | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 can | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 can | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 9 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 smiling | punct |
| 12 | smiling | smile | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 said | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 smiling | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 smiling | punct |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 Ram | case |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 for | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 Ram | nsubj |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 I | punct |
| 19 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 Ram | cop |
| 20 | Ram | Ram | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 smiling | obl |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | the poor man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | smile | gerund | the poor man not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the poor man = man | for Ram | tree rules |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/22/25/