Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 27
There he said to his bag, "Bag, I want a very, very beautiful ring."
Who acts: son · What happens: say, want · To what, where: bag, beautiful ring · 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 (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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 said | expl |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 bag | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 bag | nmod:poss |
| 6 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Bag | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Bag | punct |
| 9 | Bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bag | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 want | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 want | nsubj |
| 12 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 ring | det |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 beautiful | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 very | punct |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 beautiful | advmod |
| 17 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 ring | amod |
| 18 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 want | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | son | son's bag and Bag | there | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to bag=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | want in a quote | present | son | a beautiful ring | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot ring=Theme |
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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