Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 94
Little bed," he said, "up in the sky is the king's kettle-drum.
Who acts: Little bed · What happens: say, be · To what, where: kettle drum · 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 (Little bed), 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 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 bed | amod |
| 2 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 bed | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 bed | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 up | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 up | punct |
| 9 | up | up | ADV | _ | 6 said | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 sky | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sky | det |
| 12 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 up | obl |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 drum | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 drum | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 king | case |
| 17 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 drum | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 kettle | punct |
| 19 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Little bed | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | the king's kettle drum | 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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