Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 45

"Tell us the truth," said the servants; "who are you?"

Who acts: you, servants · What happens: tell, say, be · To what, where: truth, us · 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, servants), 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	_	2 Tell	punct
2	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Tell	iobj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 truth	det
5	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Tell	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Tell	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 servants	det
10	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 said	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 who	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 who	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	2 Tell	ccomp
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 who	cop
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 who	nsubj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	imperative	you not said here	the truth	us	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the servants			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	present	you			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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