Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 73
They all said they had never seen any one like him, and were all very happy.
Who acts: keepers · What happens: say, not see, be · 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 (keepers), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 said | advmod |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 seen | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 seen | aux |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 seen | advmod |
| 7 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 said | ccomp |
| 8 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 one | det |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seen | obj |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 one | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 happy | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 happy | cc |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 happy | cop |
| 15 | all | all | ADV | _ | 17 happy | advmod |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 happy | advmod |
| 17 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 said | parataxis |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | keepers = keeper | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not see | past · perfect | keepers = keeper | any one | like God | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | is | past | all, happy property | 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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