Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 13
Very well," says he, and caused him to lie down on his left side.
Who acts: friend · What happens: say, cause, lie down · To what, where: friend, left side · 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 (friend), 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 5 says | advmod |
| 2 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Very | fixed |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Very | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 says | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 caused | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 caused | cc |
| 9 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 says | ccomp |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 caused | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 lie | mark |
| 12 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 caused | xcomp |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 lie | compound:prt |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 side | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 side | nmod:poss |
| 16 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 side | amod |
| 17 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lie | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | friend | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cause in a quote | past | friend | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | lie down in a quote | to-infinitive | friend not said here | friend's left side | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location |
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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