Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 86

Now twist your right ear," said Katar.

Who acts: Katar · What happens: twist, say · To what, where: right ear · 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 twist	advmod
2	twist	twist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 ear	nmod:poss
4	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ear	amod
5	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 twist	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 twist	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 twist	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Katar	Katar	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	twist	infinitive		your right ear			now		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ear=Theme
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Katar						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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