Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 87
"Oh, no," said the tiger, "I won't eat you.
Who acts: tiger · What happens: say, not eat · To what, where: you · 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 (tiger), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 2 Oh | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tiger | det |
| 9 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 eat | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 eat | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 eat | nsubj |
| 13 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 eat | aux |
| 14 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 eat | advmod |
| 15 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | parataxis |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 eat | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the tiger | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not eat in a quote | future | the tiger = tiger | you | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
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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