Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 17
Why have you not been for two days?" she asked.
Who acts: you, girl · What happens: have, not be, ask · 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 (you, girl), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 have | advmod |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 asked | ccomp |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 days | advmod |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 days | cop |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 days | case |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 days | nummod |
| 8 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 you | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 asked | nsubj |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is | participle | for two days | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask in a quote | past | girl | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=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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