Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 89

I am a poor man," answered the boy, "and I want service." "

Who acts: I, poor man · What happens: be, answer, want · To what, where: poor man, boy, service

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, poor man), 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	5 man	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 man	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 answered	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 man	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 man	punct
8	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boy	det
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 answered	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 answered	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 answered	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 want	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 want	nsubj
15	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 answered	conj
16	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 want	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 want	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 want	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a	present	I	a poor man		tree rules
2	answer speech: assert in a quote	past	a poor man		the boy	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent boy=Eventuality
3	want	present	I	service		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot service=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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