Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 43
"It is true," he added, "that I am not as others.
Who acts: calamity, enchanter, that · What happens: be, add, not be · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (calamity, enchanter, that), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 true | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 true | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 true | cop |
| 4 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 added | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 added | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 added | nsubj |
| 8 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 true | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 added | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 true | punct |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 others | nsubj |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 others | nsubj |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 others | cop |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 others | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 others | case |
| 16 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 true | parataxis |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 true | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | calamity | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | add speech: assert | past | enchanter | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is in a quote | present | that | as others | 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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