Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 39

"We will speak of this later on," said the king, on hearing this answer. "

Who acts: We, king · What happens: speak on, say, hear · To what, where: answer · 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 (We, king), 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	_	4 speak	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 speak	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 speak	aux
4	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 this	case
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 speak	obl
7	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 on	advmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	4 speak	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 speak	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 speak	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 king	det
13	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hearing	punct
15	on	on	SCONJ	_	16 hearing	mark
16	hearing	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 said	ccomp
17	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 answer	det
18	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hearing	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 hearing	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 hearing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	speak on speech: other in a quote	future	We		of this	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the king			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	hear	gerund		this answer		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer answer=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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