Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 82
"Why do you roar like that?" said the young Raja. "
Who acts: you, young Raja · What happens: roar, say · 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, young Raja), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 roar | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 roar | advmod |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 roar | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 roar | nsubj |
| 5 | roar | roar | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 that | case |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 roar | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 roar | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 roar | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Raja | det |
| 12 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Raja | amod |
| 13 | Raja | Raja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roar in a quote | present · do-support | you | like that | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the young Raja | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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