Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 28
Oh," they said, "your cow came and tried to kill us; but we ran away.
Who acts: Queens, cow, we · What happens: say, come, try, kill, run away · To what, where: us · 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 (Queens, cow, we), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 cow | nmod:poss |
| 9 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 tried | cc |
| 12 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 came | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 kill | mark |
| 14 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 tried | xcomp |
| 15 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 kill | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 ran | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 ran | cc |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 ran | nsubj |
| 19 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 ran | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Queens = queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | come | past | your cow | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | try | past | your cow not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | kill not said to happen | to-infinitive | your cow not said here | us | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | ||||
| 5 | run away | past | we | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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