Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 63
"Ah, but I like you and your ways!
Who acts: sons · What happens: like · To what, where: you
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 (sons), 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 | _ | 6 like | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 6 like | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 like | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 like | cc |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 like | nsubj |
| 6 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 like | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ways | cc |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 ways | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 you | conj |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like in a quote | present | Your sons = son | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot you=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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