Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 98
"Oh, brother," said the vizier's son, "you have indeed seen a fairy.
Who acts: brother, you · What happens: say, see · To what, where: son, fairy · 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 (brother, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 brother | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 brother | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 brother | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 brother | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 vizier | det |
| 9 | vizier | vizier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 son | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 vizier | case |
| 11 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 seen | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 seen | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 seen | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 seen | aux |
| 16 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 17 seen | advmod |
| 17 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 said | ccomp |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 fairy | det |
| 19 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 seen | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | brother | the vizier's son | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | present · perfect | you | a fairy | indeed property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fairy=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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