Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 79

I have such a fit of indigestion!" says he.

Who acts: I · What happens: have, say · To what, where: fit, Crow · 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 (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	5 fit	det:predet
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fit	det
5	fit	fit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 indigestion	case
7	indigestion	indigestion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fit	nmod
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 says	punct
10	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	parataxis
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 says	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	I	such fit of indigestion					tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present		Crow					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=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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