Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 11

"Well," said Katar, "then twist my left ear;" and as soon as the boy had twisted it, Katar was a horse again, and not a donkey any longer. "

Who acts: Katar · What happens: say, twist, be · To what, where: left ear, boy, horse · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18. 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Katar	Katar	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 twist	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Katar	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Katar	punct
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 twist	advmod
10	twist	twist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 ear	nmod:poss
12	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ear	amod
13	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 twist	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 twisted	cc
17	as	as	ADV	_	18 soon	advmod
18	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 twisted	advmod
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 twisted	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 boy	det
21	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 twisted	nsubj:pass
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 twisted	aux
23	twisted	twist	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 said	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 twisted	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 horse	punct
26	Katar	Katar	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 horse	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 horse	cop
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 horse	det
29	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 twisted	obl
30	again	again	ADV	_	23 twisted	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 donkey	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 donkey	cc
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 donkey	advmod
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 donkey	det
35	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 twisted	obl
36	any	any	ADV	_	37 longer	advmod
37	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 twisted	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	twist in a quote	infinitive	Katar	my left ear	then		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ear=Theme
3	twist	past · perfect · passive		the boy	again	a donkey obl; long, soon property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: subject=Theme it=Result
4	is a	past	Katar	a horse			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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