Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 68
"Hullo, Mr. Pigeon, what a time you take over your meal!
Who acts: you · What happens: take over · To what, where: meal
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 (you), 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 | _ | 5 Pigeon | punct |
| 2 | Hullo | hullo | INTJ | _ | 5 Pigeon | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hullo | punct |
| 4 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Pigeon | nmod:desc |
| 5 | Pigeon | Pigeon | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 what | punct |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 Pigeon | nmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 time | det |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 what | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 take | nsubj |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 time | acl:relcl |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 take | compound:prt |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 meal | nmod:poss |
| 14 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | obj |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 Pigeon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take over in a quote | present | you | your meal | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=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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