Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 80

"Oh, brother! who could have done this thing?

Who acts: brother · What happens: do · To what, where: thing

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 (brother), 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	9 done	nsubj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 brother	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 done	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 done	aux
8	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 done	aux
9	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 thing	det
11	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 done	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	could · perfect	brother	this thing					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality

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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