Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 139
Aunty," said the Raja's son, "why don't you light a lamp?"
Who acts: Aunty, you · What happens: say, not light · To what, where: son, lamp · 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 (Aunty, you), 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 | Aunty | aunty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Aunty | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Aunty | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Raja | det |
| 6 | Raja | Raja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 son | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Raja | case |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 light | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 light | punct |
| 11 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 light | advmod |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 light | aux |
| 13 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 light | advmod |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 light | nsubj |
| 15 | light | light | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | parataxis |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 lamp | det |
| 17 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 light | obj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Aunty | the Raja's son | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not light | present · do-support | you | a lamp | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamp=Product |
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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