Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 6
I never saw such a beautiful child in this country," she said. "
Who acts: I, child · What happens: not see, say · To what, where: beautiful child, country · 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 (I, child), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 saw | advmod |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | ccomp |
| 4 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 child | det:predet |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 child | det |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 child | amod |
| 7 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 country | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 country | det |
| 10 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 child | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | past | I | such beautiful child | this country | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | child | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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