Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 21
And Wind said, "Neither have I brought anything home for you, mother.
Who acts: Wind · What happens: say, bring · To what, where: anything · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wind), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 brought | punct |
| 6 | Neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 9 brought | cc:preconj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 brought | aux |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 brought | nsubj |
| 9 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 said | conj |
| 10 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 brought | obj |
| 11 | home | home | ADV | _ | 9 brought | advmod |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 you | case |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 brought | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 mother | punct |
| 15 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brought | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Wind | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bring in a quote | present · perfect | Wind | anything | for you; home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent anything=Theme |
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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