Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 90
She answered, "Very well, bind my eyes."
Who acts: gardener · What happens: answer, bind · To what, where: eyes · 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), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 answered | nsubj |
| 2 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bind | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 bind | punct |
| 5 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 6 well | advmod |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 bind | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 well | punct |
| 8 | bind | bind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 answered | ccomp |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bind | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 bind | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 bind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | gardener | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | bind in a quote | infinitive | my eyes | well property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
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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