Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 21
Balna turned to her, angrily, and said, "Why don't you keep fuel in your own house, and not come here every day and take ours?
Who acts: Balna, you · What happens: turn, say, not keep, not come, take · To what, where: woman, fuel, own house, ours · 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 (Balna, 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 | Balna | Balna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 her | case |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 turned | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 angrily | punct |
| 6 | angrily | angrily | ADV | _ | 2 turned | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 keep | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 keep | punct |
| 12 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 keep | advmod |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 keep | aux |
| 14 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 keep | advmod |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 keep | nsubj |
| 16 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 17 | fuel | fuel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 keep | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 house | case |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 house | nmod:poss |
| 20 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 house | amod |
| 21 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 keep | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 come | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 come | cc |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 come | advmod |
| 25 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 turned | parataxis |
| 26 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 come | advmod |
| 27 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 day | det |
| 28 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 come | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 take | cc |
| 30 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 come | conj |
| 31 | ours | our | PRON | Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 take | obj |
| 32 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | Balna | woman | angrily property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Balna not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not keep in a quote | present · do-support | you | fuel | your own house | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fuel=Theme in house=Location | |||
| 4 | not come in a quote | infinitive | here | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | take in a quote | infinitive | ours | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent our=Theme |
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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