Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 131
But the princess said, "Take care! take care!
Who acts: princess · What happens: say, take · To what, where: care · 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 (princess), 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 | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 princess | det |
| 3 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Take | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Take | punct |
| 7 | Take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 8 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Take | obj |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 Take | punct |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 Take | conj |
| 11 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obj |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | the princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | take in a quote | infinitive | care | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take in a quote | infinitive | care | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
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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