Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 105

A woman brought me one to-day, and on my inquiring whether it was a male or female, the fish laughed most rudely."

Who acts: woman, my, behaviour · What happens: bring, inquire, be · To what, where: one, me

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, my, behaviour), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 woman	det
2	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brought	nsubj
3	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 brought	obj
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 brought	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 day	case
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 to	punct
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 one	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 inquiring	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 inquiring	cc
11	on	on	SCONJ	_	13 inquiring	mark
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 inquiring	nsubj
13	inquiring	inquire	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 brought	advcl
14	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	24 laughed	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 laughed	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 laughed	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 laughed	det
18	male	male	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 laughed	advcl
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 female	cc
20	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 male	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 laughed	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 fish	det
23	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 laughed	nsubj
24	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 inquiring	advcl
25	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	26 rudely	advmod
26	rudely	rudely	ADV	_	24 laughed	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 brought	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	bring	past	a woman	one	me		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination one=Theme
2	inquire speech: other	gerund	my				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	behaviour			laugh, rudely 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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