Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 18
The King replied, "I am a King, Fakir.
Who acts: King · What happens: reply, be · 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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 King | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 King | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 King | nsubj |
| 7 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 King | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 replied | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Fakir | punct |
| 11 | Fakir | Fakir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 King | flat |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the King | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | the King = king | a King | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/25/18/