Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 164

And to each of them the little slyboots replied:

What happens: reply · To what, where: little slyboots

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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 each	cc
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 each	case
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 each	nmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 slyboots	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 slyboots	amod
8	slyboots	slyboots	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 them	appos
9	replied	reply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 slyboots	acl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 each	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	participle		the little slyboots not said here					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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