Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 105
The Raja's son said to them, "Do not quarrel for these things.
Who acts: son · What happens: say, not quarrel · To what, where: things · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Raja | det |
| 2 | Raja | Raja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Raja | case |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 quarrel | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 quarrel | punct |
| 10 | Do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 quarrel | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 quarrel | advmod |
| 12 | quarrel | quarrel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | conj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 things | case |
| 14 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 things | det |
| 15 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 quarrel | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Raja's son | things = thing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | not quarrel in a quote | infinitive · do-support | the Raja's son not said here | for this things | vn battle-36.4 «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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