Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 36
Then Balna said to her sisters, "Do you not see that girl watching us?
Who acts: Balna, sisters, girl · What happens: say, not see, watch · To what, where: sisters, girl, us · 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, sisters, girl), 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 | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | Balna | Balna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 sisters | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 6 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
| 9 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 see | aux |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 see | nsubj |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 see | advmod |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | conj |
| 13 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 girl | det |
| 14 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 see | obj |
| 15 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 girl | acl |
| 16 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 watching | obj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | Balna | Balna's sisters | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to sister=Recipient | |||
| 2 | not see in a quote | present · do-support | Balna's sisters = sister | that girl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | watch in a quote | gerund | that girl not said here | us | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=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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