Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 61
Why do you look so sad?" said the Ant-Raja.
Who acts: you, Ant Raja · What happens: look, say · 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 (you, Ant Raja), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 look | advmod |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 look | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 look | nsubj |
| 4 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 sad | advmod |
| 6 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 look | xcomp |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Raja | det |
| 11 | Ant | Ant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Raja | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Ant | punct |
| 13 | Raja | Raja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present · do-support | you | sad property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the Ant Raja | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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