Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 143
But to all of them Lambikin replied, with a little frisk:
What happens: reply
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 replied | cc |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 all | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 replied | advmod |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 all | nmod |
| 6 | Lambikin | Lambikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 all | nmod |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 frisk | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 frisk | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 frisk | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 frisk | amod |
| 12 | frisk | frisk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | ccomp |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 frisk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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