Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 18
"Father," said the farmer's daughter, who was a very sharp and wise girl, "this man, whosoever he is, is no fool, as you deem him.
Who acts: Father, daughter, man, you · What happens: say, be, deem · To what, where: sharp girl, fool, man · 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 (Father, daughter, man, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Father | punct |
| 2 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Father | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Father | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 farmer | det |
| 7 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 farmer | case |
| 9 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 girl | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 girl | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 girl | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 girl | det |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 sharp | advmod |
| 15 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 girl | amod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 wise | cc |
| 17 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sharp | conj |
| 18 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 daughter | appos |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 man | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 man | punct |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 man | det |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 girl | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 whosoever | punct |
| 24 | whosoever | whosoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 man | appos |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 is | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 whosoever | acl:relcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 fool | punct |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 fool | cop |
| 29 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 30 fool | det |
| 30 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 daughter | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 deem | punct |
| 32 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 34 deem | mark |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 deem | nsubj |
| 34 | deem | deem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 deem | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | the farmer's daughter and no fool | a sharp girl and this man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | man | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | Father not said here | no fool | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | deem in a quote | present | you | man | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Attribute |
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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