Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 71
"No, I will not," she said; "for why should I call him from his hunting when I do not want him?"
Who acts: gardener, King · What happens: say, call, not want, hunt · To what, where: King, hunting · 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 (gardener, King), 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 will | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 will | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 will | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 will | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 will | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 call | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 call | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 call | mark |
| 14 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 call | advmod |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 call | aux |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 call | nsubj |
| 17 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 call | obj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 hunting | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 hunting | nmod:poss |
| 21 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 call | obl |
| 22 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 26 want | mark |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 want | nsubj |
| 24 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 want | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 want | advmod |
| 26 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 call | advcl |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 want | obj |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 call | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | future | gardener | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | call in a quote | should | gardener | King | King's hunting | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent he=Theme from hunting=Source | |||
| 3 | not want in a quote | present · do-support | gardener | King | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hunt in a quote | King | nom hunting «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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