Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 87
With this I shall buy a couple of goats.
Who acts: I · What happens: buy · To what, where: couple
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 (I), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 buy | obl |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 buy | nsubj |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 buy | aux |
| 5 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 couple | det |
| 7 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 buy | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 goats | case |
| 9 | goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 couple | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 buy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | shall | I | a couple of goats | with this | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent couple=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/10/87/