Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 90
Good," said the grain merchant, "you shall be my servant."
Who acts: you · What happens: say, be · To what, where: grain merchant, servant · 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 (you), 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 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 said | ccomp |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Good | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Good | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 merchant | det |
| 6 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 merchant | compound |
| 7 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 servant | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 servant | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 servant | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 servant | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 servant | cop |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 servant | nmod:poss |
| 14 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 merchant | appos |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 servant | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 servant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the grain merchant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent merchant=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a | shall | you | my servant | tree rules |
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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