Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 37
"Good," said Katar; "show me what it is."
Who acts: Katar, care · What happens: say, show, be · To what, where: Katar · 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 (Katar, care), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Good | conj |
| 6 | Katar | Katar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 show | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 show | punct |
| 9 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Good | parataxis |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 show | iobj |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 is | obj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 is | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 show | ccomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Katar | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | show in a quote | infinitive | Katar | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | care | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=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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