Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 13
"There is a man in yonder field," he said, after returning their greetings. "
Who acts: man, paijamas · What happens: be, say, return, greet · To what, where: greetings · 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 (man, paijamas), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 field | case |
| 7 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 8 field | advmod |
| 8 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 man | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 returning | punct |
| 14 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 15 returning | mark |
| 15 | returning | return | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 said | ccomp |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 greetings | nmod:poss |
| 17 | greetings | greeting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 returning | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 returning | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 returning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | a man in field | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | return | gerund | paijamas's greetings | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent greeting=Theme | |||||
| 4 | greet | paijamas = paijama | nom greeting «communication transitive»: poss=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/26/13/