Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 98

But on the third night, when she found she could not make him answer her, she said to him, "What a strange man you are not to answer me when I speak to you."

Who acts: daughter, boy · What happens: find, not make, not answer, say, not be, speak · To what, where: boy, daughter · 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 (daughter, boy), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 found	cc
2	on	on	ADP	_	5 night	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 night	det
4	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 night	amod
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 found	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 night	punct
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 found	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 found	nsubj
9	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 make	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 make	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 make	advmod
13	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 found	ccomp
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 make	obj
15	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 make	xcomp
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 answer	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 found	parataxis
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 What	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 What	punct
24	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 said	ccomp
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 man	det
26	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 man	amod
27	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 What	nsubj
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 answer	nsubj
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 answer	cop
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 answer	advmod
31	to	to	PART	_	32 answer	mark
32	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 man	acl:relcl
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 answer	obj
34	when	when	SCONJ	_	36 speak	mark
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 speak	nsubj
36	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 answer	advcl
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 you	case
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 speak	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 found	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	daughter			night		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not make	could	daughter	boy				tree rules
3	not answer speech: assert	infinitive	boy not said here		daughter			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality
4	say speech: assert	past	daughter		boy			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
5	not is in a quote	present	boy				answer property	tree rules
6	speak speech: other in a quote	present	daughter		boy			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to you=Co-Agent

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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