Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 137
See, aunty," he said, "with this bowl I can always get as much water as I want."
Who acts: you, prince, I · What happens: see, say, get, want · To what, where: much water · 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 (you, prince, 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 | See | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 aunty | punct |
| 3 | aunty | aunty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 aunty | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 aunty | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 See | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 get | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 get | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 bowl | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 bowl | det |
| 12 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 get | obl |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 get | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 get | aux |
| 15 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 16 get | advmod |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 See | parataxis |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 18 much | advmod |
| 18 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 water | amod |
| 19 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 get | obj |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 want | mark |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 want | nsubj |
| 22 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 get | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | get | can | I | much water | with this bowl; always property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | want | present | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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