Indian Fairy Tales, II. Princess Labam., sentence 3

153-63, told by Múniyá, one of the ayahs.

What happens: tell · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, II. Princess Labam.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	153-63	153-63	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct
3	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 153-63	acl
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 Múniyá	case
5	Múniyá	Múniyá	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 told	obl:agent
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 one	punct
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 Múniyá	appos
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 ayahs	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ayahs	det
10	ayahs	ayah	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 one	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 153-63	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	participle							vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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