Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 134

How can you be my son," he said, "when I have never had any children?"

Who acts: you, King, I · What happens: be, say, not have · To what, where: son, children · 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 (you, King, I), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 son	advmod
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 son	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 son	nsubj
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 son	cop
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 son	nmod:poss
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 son	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 son	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 had	advmod
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 had	nsubj
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 had	aux
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 had	advmod
17	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 said	ccomp
18	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	19 children	det
19	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 had	obj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	can	you	my son	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	King		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not have	present · perfect	I	any children	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient

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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