Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 43
"No, no, indeed you are not," they said; "for he is a poor, common-looking, and ugly man."
Who acts: prince · What happens: be, not say, look · 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 (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 13 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 2 No | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 6 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 13 said | advmod |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 said | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 not | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 not | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 poor | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 poor | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 poor | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 poor | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 poor | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 poor | det |
| 20 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 said | ccomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 looking | punct |
| 22 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 looking | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 common | punct |
| 24 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 poor | advcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 man | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 man | cc |
| 27 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 man | amod |
| 28 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | ccomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 man | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | not say speech: assert | past | indeed property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | prince | poor property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | look in a quote | gerund | prince not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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