Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 38
But the other sisters said, "Oh no, do not be unkind, Balna.
Who acts: other sisters · What happens: say, not be · 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), 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 | _ | 5 said | 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 | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 unkind | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 unkind | punct |
| 8 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 14 unkind | discourse |
| 9 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 8 Oh | discourse |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Oh | punct |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 unkind | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 unkind | advmod |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 unkind | cop |
| 14 | unkind | unkind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Balna | punct |
| 16 | Balna | Balna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 unkind | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the other sisters | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | infinitive · do-support | Balna obl; unkind 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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