Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 22
"Oh yes," replied the woman, "I should know them again among all the people in the city."
Who acts: woman · What happens: reply, know · To what, where: men · 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 (woman), 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 replied | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 replied | discourse |
| 3 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 2 Oh | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 woman | det |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 know | nsubj |
| 12 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 know | aux |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 replied | conj |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 know | obj |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 know | advmod |
| 16 | among | among | ADP | _ | 19 people | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 people | det:predet |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 people | det |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 know | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 city | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 city | det |
| 22 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 people | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the woman | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | know in a quote | should | the woman = woman | men = man | again | among all people in the city | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
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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