Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 151
The vizier's son looked as much as to say, "Keep quiet, or you'll discover the secret."
Who acts: son, you · What happens: look, say, keep, discover · To what, where: much, secret · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 vizier | det |
| 2 | vizier | vizier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 vizier | case |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 much | advmod |
| 7 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 looked | obj |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 say | mark |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 say | mark |
| 10 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 much | acl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Keep | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Keep | punct |
| 13 | Keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 say | conj |
| 14 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Keep | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 discover | punct |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 discover | cc |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 discover | nsubj |
| 18 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 discover | aux |
| 19 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 looked | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 secret | det |
| 21 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 discover | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 discover | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 discover | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the vizier's son | much | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme much=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | keep in a quote | infinitive | quiet property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | discover in a quote | future | you | the secret | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Topic |
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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