Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 3
"We found it near your bed," answered the servants.
Who acts: We, servants · What happens: find, answer · To what, where: leaf, bed · 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 (We, servants), 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 | _ | 3 found | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 found | nsubj |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 answered | advcl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 found | obj |
| 5 | near | near | ADP | _ | 7 bed | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 bed | nmod:poss |
| 7 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 servants | det |
| 12 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 answered | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find in a quote | past | We | leaf | your bed | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the servants | vn reciprocate-112-1 «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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