Indian Fairy Tales, Opening, sentence 7
A letter following a carat character is superscripted.
Who acts: letter · What happens: follow, superscript · To what, where: carat character, letter
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (letter), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 letter | det |
| 2 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 superscripted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 letter | acl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 character | det |
| 5 | carat | carat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 character | compound |
| 6 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 following | obj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 superscripted | aux:pass |
| 8 | superscripted | superscript | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 superscripted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | a letter not said here | a carat character | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent character=Theme | ||||
| 2 | superscript | present · passive | a letter | 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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