Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 122
"It is so," said the maid-servant; "the burn is there."
Who acts: back, maid servant, burn · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (back, maid servant, burn), 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 | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 is | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 is | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 servant | det |
| 9 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 servant | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 maid | punct |
| 11 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 there | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 there | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 burn | det |
| 15 | burn | burn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 there | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 there | cop |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 said | parataxis |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | back | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the maid servant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the burn | there property | tree rules |
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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