Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 24
Then in reply the crane said the two other verses:
Who acts: crane · What happens: reply, say · To what, where: two other verses · 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 (crane), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 reply | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 3 reply | mark |
| 3 | reply | reply | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 crane | det |
| 5 | crane | crane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reply | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 verses | det |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 verses | nummod |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 verses | amod |
| 10 | verses | verse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 said | obj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 reply | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | imperative | then | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the crane | the two other verses | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent verse=Topic |
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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