Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 16
See, mother," she said; "Khuda must have given me this shawl, it is so beautiful."
Who acts: you, princess, shawl · What happens: see, say, give, be · To what, where: mother, Khuda · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (you, princess, shawl), 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 | See | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mother | punct |
| 3 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 See | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mother | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 mother | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 mother | acl:relcl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 given | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 given | punct |
| 10 | Khuda | Khuda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 given | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 given | aux |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 given | aux |
| 13 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 See | parataxis |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 given | obj |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 shawl | det |
| 16 | shawl | shawl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 given | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 beautiful | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 beautiful | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 beautiful | cop |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 beautiful | advmod |
| 21 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 See | parataxis |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | mother | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mother=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | princess | mother not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mother=Topic | ||||
| 3 | give | must · perfect · passive | Khuda | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is | present | shawl | beautiful property | tree rules |
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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