Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 78
Then the people said, "The slave-girl has made a mistake."
Who acts: people · What happens: say, make · To what, where: slave girl · 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 (people), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 people | det |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
| 7 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 girl | det |
| 8 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 girl | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 slave | punct |
| 10 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 made | aux |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 said | ccomp |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 mistake | det |
| 14 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the people | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | make in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the slave girl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary mistake=Product |
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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