Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 96
"Who is this man who does not answer when I speak to him?" thought the little princess, and she went away.
Who acts: man, little princess, princess · What happens: be, not answer, speak, think, go away · To what, where: man, boy · 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 (man, little princess, princess), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 man | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 man | cop |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 thought | nsubj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 answer | nsubj |
| 7 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 answer | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 answer | advmod |
| 9 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 man | acl:relcl |
| 10 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 12 speak | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 speak | nsubj |
| 12 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 answer | ccomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 speak | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 answer | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 answer | punct |
| 17 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 princess | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 princess | amod |
| 20 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 thought | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 went | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 went | cc |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 went | nsubj |
| 24 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 thought | ccomp |
| 25 | away | away | ADV | _ | 24 went | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | this man | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not answer speech: assert in a quote | present · do-support | this man | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other in a quote | present | the little princess = princess | boy | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | the little princess | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | go away | past | princess | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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