Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 37

"Never!" cried the farmer; "that would be the old business all over again!"

Who acts: farmer, that · What happens: not cry, be · To what, where: old business · 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 (farmer, that), 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	_	5 cried	punct
2	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 cried	advmod
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Never	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Never	punct
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 farmer	det
7	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 business	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 business	punct
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 business	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 business	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 business	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 business	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 business	amod
15	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obl
16	all	all	ADV	_	17 over	advmod
17	over	over	ADV	_	18 again	advmod
18	again	again	ADV	_	15 business	advmod
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 business	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not cry speech: express	past	the farmer						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	would	that	the old business			again		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.

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