Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 92
"No one hurt me," answered the husband; "but a Raja's son came and took the thorn out of my foot."
Who acts: one, husband, son · What happens: hurt, answer, come, take · To what, where: husband, thorn, foot · 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 (one, husband, son), 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 | _ | 4 hurt | punct |
| 2 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 one | det |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hurt | nsubj |
| 4 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 hurt | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hurt | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 husband | det |
| 10 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 came | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 Raja | det |
| 15 | Raja | Raja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 son | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 Raja | case |
| 17 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hurt | parataxis |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 took | cc |
| 20 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 came | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 thorn | det |
| 22 | thorn | thorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 took | obj |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 foot | case |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 foot | case |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 foot | nmod:poss |
| 26 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 took | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hurt | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 hurt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt in a quote | past | no one | the husband = husband | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Patient | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the husband | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come in a quote | past | a Raja's son | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | take in a quote | past | a Raja's son not said here | the thorn | my foot | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent thorn=Theme out foot=Initial_Location |
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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