Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 44
Oh," said the old woman, "go away from this country, and do not think of marrying her.
Who acts: old woman · What happens: say, go away, not think, marry · To what, where: country, woman · 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 (old woman), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 said | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 woman | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 woman | amod |
| 7 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 go | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 go | punct |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 go | advmod |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 country | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 country | det |
| 14 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 go | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 think | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 think | cc |
| 17 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 19 think | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 think | advmod |
| 19 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 go | parataxis |
| 20 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 21 marrying | mark |
| 21 | marrying | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 think | advcl |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 marrying | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the old woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go away | infinitive | this country | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from country=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | not think speech: other | infinitive · do-support | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | marry | gerund | woman | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
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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