Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 91

But he said, "I am a holy man, you must let me in."

Who acts: husband, you · What happens: say, be, let in · To what, where: holy man, husband · 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 (husband, you), 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	_	3 said	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 man	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 man	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 man	nsubj
7	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 man	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 let	punct
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 let	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 let	aux
14	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 let	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	14 let	compound:prt
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 let	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	husband		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a in a quote	present	husband	a holy man	tree rules
3	let in in a quote	must	you	husband	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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