Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 40
And are you too great an enchanter ever to feel human suffering?"
Who acts: you, enchanter · What happens: be, feel · To what, where: human suffering
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, enchanter), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 great | cc |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 great | cop |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 great | nsubj |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 great | advmod |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 enchanter | det |
| 7 | enchanter | enchanter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 feel | nsubj |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 feel | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 feel | mark |
| 10 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 great | csubj |
| 11 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 suffering | amod |
| 12 | suffering | suffering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 feel | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 great | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 great | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feel | to-infinitive | a enchanter | human suffering | ever | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suffering=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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