Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 126
But then they and the Rajas said, "What fooling is this?" and they pushed the pretended poor man away, and took the necklace off his neck, and said to him, "Get out of the way, you poor, dirty man.
Who acts: servants, fooling · What happens: say, be, push, pretend, take off, get out · To what, where: this, pretended poor man, necklace, King, way · 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 (servants, fooling), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 said | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Rajas | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Rajas | det |
| 6 | Rajas | raja | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 they | conj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 What | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 What | punct |
| 10 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 said | ccomp |
| 11 | fooling | fooling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 this | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 this | cop |
| 13 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 What | nsubj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 What | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 What | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 pushed | cc |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 pushed | nsubj |
| 18 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 20 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 man | amod |
| 21 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 man | amod |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pushed | obj |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 pushed | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 took | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 took | cc |
| 26 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 necklace | det |
| 28 | necklace | necklace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 took | obj |
| 29 | off | off | ADP | _ | 26 took | compound:prt |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 neck | nmod:poss |
| 31 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 took | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 said | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 said | cc |
| 34 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 took | conj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 him | case |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 said | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 Get | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 Get | punct |
| 39 | Get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 said | ccomp |
| 40 | out | out | ADP | _ | 43 way | case |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 way | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 way | det |
| 43 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 Get | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 poor | punct |
| 45 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 46 poor | nsubj |
| 46 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 Get | parataxis |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 man | punct |
| 48 | dirty | dirty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 man | amod |
| 49 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 poor | conj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | servants = servant | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | fooling | this | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | push | past | servants = servant | the pretended poor man | away property | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | |||
| 4 | pretend | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | take off | past | servants = servant not said here | the necklace | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | servants = servant not said here | King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 7 | get out in a quote | infinitive | the way | 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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