Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 32

Then the Ranee said to her daughter, "I cannot tell how it is, every day those seven girls say they don't want any dinner, and won't eat any; and yet they never grow thin nor look ill; they look better than you do.

Who acts: Ranee, tree, seven girls, girls, daughter · What happens: say, not tell, be, not want, not eat, not grow · To what, where: daughter, dinner, any · 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 (Ranee, tree, seven girls, girls), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Ranee	det
3	Ranee	Ranee	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 daughter	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 daughter	nmod:poss
7	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 tell	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 tell	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 tell	advmod
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	conj
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 tell	ccomp
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 how	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 how	cop
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 say	punct
18	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	19 day	det
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 say	obl:unmarked
20	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	22 girls	det
21	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 girls	nummod
22	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 say	nsubj
23	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 tell	advcl
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 want	nsubj
25	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 want	aux
26	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 want	advmod
27	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 say	ccomp
28	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	29 dinner	det
29	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 want	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 eat	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 eat	cc
32	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 eat	aux
33	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 eat	advmod
34	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 want	conj
35	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	34 eat	obj
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 grow	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 grow	cc
38	yet	yet	ADV	_	41 grow	advmod
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 grow	nsubj
40	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	41 grow	advmod
41	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	parataxis
42	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 grow	xcomp
43	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	44 look	cc
44	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 grow	conj
45	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 look	xcomp
46	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 look	punct
47	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 look	nsubj
48	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 grow	conj
49	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	48 look	xcomp
50	than	than	SCONJ	_	52 do	mark
51	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	52 do	nsubj
52	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 better	advcl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Ranee		Ranee's daughter	then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to daughter=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not tell speech: assert in a quote	can	the Ranee = ranee					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	tree				how property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert in a quote	present	that seven girls			day		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not want in a quote	present · do-support	girls = girl	any dinner				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot dinner=Theme
6	not eat in a quote	future	girls = girl not said here	any				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Patient
7	not grow in a quote	present	girls = girl			yet	thin property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	look in a quote	present	girls = girl not said here				ill property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
9	look in a quote	present	girls = girl				good property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
10	do in a quote	present	Ranee's daughter = daughter					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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