Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 15

At last a Fakir came along, and he said to the King, "Man, why are you lying here?"

Who acts: Fakir, King · What happens: come along, say, lie · To what, where: King · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Fakir, King), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 Fakir	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Fakir	amod
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 Fakir	det
4	Fakir	Fakir	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	along	along	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	parataxis
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 King	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 King	det
13	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Man	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 Man	punct
16	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 King	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lying	punct
18	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	21 lying	advmod
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 lying	aux
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 lying	nsubj
21	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 said	ccomp
22	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 lying	advmod
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	21 lying	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 lying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come along	past				at a last Fakir; along property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at fakir=Location
2	say speech: ask	past	Fakir	the King and Man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient clause=Topic
3	lie in a quote	present · progressive	the King and Man = king		here		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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