Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 45
"Very well," said the farmer; "I will go and find him, and bring him in."
Who acts: farmer · What happens: say, go, find, bring in · To what, where: farmer · 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 (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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 well | advmod |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 said | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 farmer | det |
| 8 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 go | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 go | aux |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 find | cc |
| 15 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 go | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 find | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bring | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 bring | cc |
| 19 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 go | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 bring | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 bring | compound:prt |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the farmer | well property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | future | the farmer = farmer | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | find in a quote | infinitive | the farmer = farmer not said here | farmer | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | ||||
| 4 | bring in in a quote | infinitive | the farmer = farmer not said here | farmer | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Asset |
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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