Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 12
Now," said Katar, "twist your left ear, and you will see what a beautiful young prince you will become."
Who acts: Katar, you, beautiful young prince · What happens: say, twist, see, become · To what, where: left ear · 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, you, beautiful young prince), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Katar | Katar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 twist | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 twist | punct |
| 8 | twist | twist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | conj |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 ear | nmod:poss |
| 10 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ear | amod |
| 11 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 twist | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 see | cc |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 see | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 see | aux |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | parataxis |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 become | obj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 prince | det |
| 19 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 prince | amod |
| 20 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 prince | amod |
| 21 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 become | nsubj |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 become | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 become | aux |
| 24 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 see | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Katar | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | twist | infinitive | Katar not said here | your left ear | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ear=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | future | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | become | future | a beautiful young prince | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient what=Result |
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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