Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 90
As soon as they have calved, I shall sell the calves.
Who acts: goats, I · What happens: calve, sell · To what, where: calves
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 (goats, 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 sell | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 calved | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 calved | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 calved | aux |
| 6 | calved | calve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 sell | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 calved | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 sell | nsubj |
| 9 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 sell | aux |
| 10 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 calves | det |
| 12 | calves | calf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sell | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | calve | present · perfect | goats = goat | vn calve-28.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | sell | shall | I | the calves | soon property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calf=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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