Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 38

"True, true!" said the astonished farmer. "

Who acts: astonished farmer · What happens: say · 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 (astonished farmer), 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 True	punct
2	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 true	punct
4	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 True	conj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 True	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 True	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 farmer	det
9	astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 farmer	amod
10	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the astonished farmer						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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.

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