Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 4
"Very good," she answered; "go, and take one of the horses."
Who acts: she · What happens: answer, go, take · To what, where: one · 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 (she), 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 | _ | 3 good | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 good | advmod |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 answered | nsubj |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 good | conj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 go | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 go | punct |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 answered | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 take | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 take | cc |
| 13 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 go | conj |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 take | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 horses | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 horses | det |
| 17 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 one | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 good | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | she | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go in a quote | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | take in a quote | infinitive | one of the horses | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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