Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 18
"Yes, my child," she said; "Khuda must have given you this splendid shawl."
Who acts: child · What happens: say, give · To what, where: 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 (child), 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 9 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 child | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 child | nmod:poss |
| 5 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 child | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 child | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 given | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 given | punct |
| 12 | Khuda | Khuda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 given | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 given | aux |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 given | aux |
| 15 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 said | ccomp |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 given | obj |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 shawl | det |
| 18 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 shawl | amod |
| 19 | shawl | shawl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 given | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | my child | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | give in a quote | must · perfect · passive | Khuda | 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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