Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 99
As Punchkin passed through the palace gate the servants said to him, "Where did you get that pretty little dog?"
Who acts: Punchkin, servants · What happens: pass, say, get · To what, where: palace gate, Punchkin, little dog · 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 (Punchkin, servants), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 passed | mark |
| 2 | Punchkin | Punchkin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 gate | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gate | det |
| 6 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gate | compound |
| 7 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 servants | det |
| 9 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 get | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 get | punct |
| 15 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 get | advmod |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 get | aux |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 get | nsubj |
| 18 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 19 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 dog | det |
| 20 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 21 little | advmod |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 dog | amod |
| 22 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 get | obj |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 get | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | Punchkin | the palace gate | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through gate=Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the servants | Punchkin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | get in a quote | past · do-support | Punchkin | that little dog | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dog=Stimulus |
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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