Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 84
"Who shall be my teacher?" the lad asked.
Who acts: teacher · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: teacher · 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 (teacher), 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 teacher | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 teacher | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 teacher | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 teacher | cop |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 teacher | nmod:poss |
| 6 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 teacher | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 teacher | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lad | det |
| 10 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | shall | my teacher | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | my teacher | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/26/84/