--- title: “Oh,” said the girl, “he is everything you ask, and more; he is even… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics description: “Oh,” said the girl, “he is everything you ask, and more; he is even strange-looking, for he has a white face, and his hair is the color of last year’s prairie grass.” Who acts: girl, man, you, hair. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, man, you, hair), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66596:12:48 # text = “Oh,” said the girl, “he is everything you ask, and more; he is even strange-looking, for he has a white face, and his hair is the color of last year’s prairie grass.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 “ " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 7 conj _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 ask ask VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 21 even even ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 22 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 for for SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 34 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 36 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 color color NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 40 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ’s 's PART POS _ 41 case _ _ 43 prairie prairie NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 44 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the girl | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | man | everything | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | man | | | | | look *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **have** *in a quote* | present | man | a white face | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient | | 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | man's hair | the color | | | | of last year's prairie grass | 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:** «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Project Gutenberg book 66596 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/12/47/) - next →: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/12/49/) - ↑ back to [Thunder Maker and Cold Maker](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/12/)