Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 71
Here Katar said to the boy, "Now get off my back."
Who acts: Katar · What happens: say, get off · To what, where: boy, back · 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), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | Katar | Katar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 boy | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 boy | det |
| 6 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 boy | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 get | punct |
| 9 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 get | advmod |
| 10 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 get | compound:prt |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 back | nmod:poss |
| 13 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 get | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 get | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Katar | the boy | here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to boy=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | get off in a quote | infinitive | my back | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer back=Stimulus |
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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