Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 38
The first ant said, "O ant, why do you drag this away from me?
Who acts: first ant, you · What happens: say, drag away · To what, where: this · 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 (first ant, you), 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 | 3 ant | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 ant | amod |
| 3 | ant | ant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ant | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 ant | punct |
| 7 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 8 ant | discourse |
| 8 | ant | ant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 drag | punct |
| 10 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 drag | advmod |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 drag | aux |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 drag | nsubj |
| 13 | drag | drag | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ant | acl:relcl |
| 14 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 drag | obj |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 drag | advmod |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 me | case |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 drag | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | the first ant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | drag away in a quote | present · do-support | you | this | from the first ant = ant; away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent this=Theme from i=Initial_Location |
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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