Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 30

"Oh mother, mother, cannot you see your poor children, how unhappy we are, and how we are starved by our cruel step-mother?"

Who acts: you, cruel step mother · What happens: not see, be, starve · To what, where: poor children, we

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 (you, cruel step mother), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 mother	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	3 mother	discourse
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 see	dislocated
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mother	punct
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mother	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mother	punct
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 see	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 see	advmod
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 see	nsubj
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 children	nmod:poss
12	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 children	amod
13	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 see	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 unhappy	punct
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 unhappy	advmod
16	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 see	parataxis
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 are	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 unhappy	cop
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 starved	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 starved	cc
21	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 starved	advmod
22	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 starved	nsubj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 starved	aux:pass
24	starved	starve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 see	conj
25	by	by	ADP	_	30 mother	case
26	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 mother	nmod:poss
27	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 mother	amod
28	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 mother	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 step	punct
30	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 starved	obl
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not see in a quote	can	you	your poor children	mother and mother dislocated	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus
2	is in a quote	present			unhappy property	tree rules
3	starve in a quote	present · passive	our cruel step mother	we		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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