Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 58
Balna saw her first, and said, "See, sisters, there comes that girl again.
Who acts: Balna, girl · What happens: see, say, come · To what, where: mother, sisters · 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, 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 | Balna | Balna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | obj |
| 4 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 2 saw | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 See | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 See | punct |
| 10 | See | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sisters | punct |
| 12 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 See | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 comes | punct |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 comes | expl |
| 15 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 See | parataxis |
| 16 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 girl | det |
| 17 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 comes | nsubj |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 15 comes | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Balna | mother | first property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Balna not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | see in a quote | infinitive | sisters | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | come in a quote | present | that girl | there | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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