Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 141

This made her very sad, and she said to herself, "My sisters' husbands hunt every day, but my husband never hunts at all."

Who acts: This, princess, husbands, husband · What happens: make, say, hunt, not hunt · To what, where: princess, all · 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 (This, princess, husbands, husband), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	obj
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 sad	advmod
5	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 made	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	parataxis
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 herself	case
11	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 said	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 hunt	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 hunt	punct
14	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 sisters	nmod:poss
15	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 husbands	nmod:poss
16	'	's	PART	_	15 sisters	case
17	husbands	husband	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 hunt	nsubj
18	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
19	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	20 day	det
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hunt	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hunts	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 hunts	cc
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 husband	nmod:poss
24	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hunts	nsubj
25	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	26 hunts	advmod
26	hunts	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 made	parataxis
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 all	case
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 hunts	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	This	princess				sad property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	princess		princess				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient
3	hunt in a quote	present	My sisters's husbands				day		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not hunt in a quote	present	my husband			all			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent at all=Location

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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