Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 105

The horse said, "Next time she asks you who you are, tell her you are a very poor man, and came from your own country to find service here."

Who acts: horse, princess, you · What happens: say, ask, be, tell, come, find · To what, where: you, princess, poor man, own country, service · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, princess, you), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 asks	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 time	punct
6	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 time	amod
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 asks	obl:unmarked
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 asks	nsubj
9	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 tell	advcl
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 asks	obj
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	9 asks	ccomp
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 who	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 who	cop
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 asks	punct
15	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 tell	iobj
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 man	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 man	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 man	det
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 poor	advmod
21	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 man	amod
22	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tell	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 came	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 came	cc
25	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
26	from	from	ADP	_	29 country	case
27	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 country	nmod:poss
28	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 country	amod
29	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 came	obl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 find	mark
31	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 came	advcl
32	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 find	obj
33	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 find	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the horse					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	ask speech: ask in a quote	present	princess		you		time	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	is a in a quote	present	you					tree rules
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive			princess			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
5	is a in a quote	present	you	a poor man				tree rules
6	come in a quote	past	the horse not said here			your own country		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from country=Initial_Location
7	find in a quote	to-infinitive	the horse not said here	service		here		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Topic

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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