Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 12

But the other sisters would answer, "Be quiet, Balna; why must you always be quarrelling with this poor woman?

Who acts: other sisters, you · What happens: answer, be, quarrell · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other sisters, you), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 answer	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sisters	det
3	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sisters	amod
4	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 answer	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 answer	aux
6	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 quiet	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 quiet	punct
9	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 quiet	cop
10	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 answer	csubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Balna	punct
12	Balna	Balna	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 quiet	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 quarrelling	punct
14	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	19 quarrelling	advmod
15	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 quarrelling	aux
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 quarrelling	nsubj
17	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	19 quarrelling	advmod
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 quarrelling	aux
19	quarrelling	quarrell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 answer	advcl
20	with	with	ADP	_	23 woman	case
21	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 woman	det
22	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 woman	amod
23	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 quarrelling	obl
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 answer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	answer speech: ask	would	the other sisters		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	infinitive		Balna obl; quiet property	tree rules
3	quarrell in a quote	must · progressive	you	with this poor woman; always property	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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