Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 72
"Don't mind interrupting his hunting," they answered. "
Who acts: you, daughters, King · What happens: not mind, interrupt, answer, hunt · To what, where: 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 (you, daughters, 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 | _ | 4 mind | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 mind | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 mind | advmod |
| 4 | mind | mind | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | interrupting | interrupt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 mind | xcomp |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hunting | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 interrupting | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 answered | nsubj |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 mind | parataxis |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 mind | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 mind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind in a quote | imperative · do-support | you not said here | vn care-88.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | interrupt in a quote | gerund | you not said here | King's hunting | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | daughters = daughter | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 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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