Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 56
It was the middle of the day, and the heat was very great.
Who acts: circle, heat · What happens: be · To what, where: middle
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 (circle, heat), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 middle | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 middle | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 middle | det |
| 4 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 day | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 middle | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 great | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 great | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 heat | det |
| 11 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 great | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 great | cop |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 great | advmod |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 middle | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 middle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | circle | the middle | day | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | the heat | great property | 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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