Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 135
"The villain, though exceeding clever, Shall prosper not by his villainy.
Who acts: villain · What happens: exceed, not prosper · To what, where: villainy
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (villain), 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 | _ | 10 prosper | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 villain | det |
| 3 | villain | villain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 prosper | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 exceeding | punct |
| 5 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 6 exceeding | mark |
| 6 | exceeding | exceed | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 villain | appos |
| 7 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 exceeding | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 villain | punct |
| 9 | Shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 prosper | aux |
| 10 | prosper | prosper | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 prosper | advmod |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 villainy | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 villainy | nmod:poss |
| 14 | villainy | villainy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 prosper | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 prosper | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exceed in a quote | gerund | clever property | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | not prosper in a quote | shall | the villain | villain's villainy | 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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