Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 29
"Anger?" said the vizier's son, with an astonished air. "
Who acts: Anger · What happens: say · To what, where: son · 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 (Anger), 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 | _ | 2 Anger | punct |
| 2 | Anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Anger | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Anger | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 vizier | det |
| 7 | vizier | vizier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 son | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 vizier | case |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 air | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 air | case |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 air | det |
| 13 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 air | amod |
| 14 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 air | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 air | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Anger | the vizier's son | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent son=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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