Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 111

You, Demon!" said he, "did you never hear of me before--the Prince of the Five Weapons?

Who acts: Demon, Bodhisatta · What happens: say, not hear · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Demon, Bodhisatta), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 Demon	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Demon	punct
3	Demon	Demon	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 Demon	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Demon	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hear	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 he	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 hear	punct
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 hear	aux
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 hear	nsubj
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 hear	advmod
13	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 me	case
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 hear	obl
16	before	before	ADV	_	13 hear	advmod
17	--	--	PUNCT	_	19 Prince	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Prince	det
19	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	ccomp
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 Weapons	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Weapons	det
22	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 Weapons	nummod
23	Weapons	weapon	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 Prince	nmod
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Demon						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not hear	past · do-support	Bodhisatta					of me; before property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of i=Stimulus

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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