Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 136
He may win indeed, sharp-witted in deceit, But only as the Crane here from the Crab!"
Who acts: villain · What happens: win
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 win | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 win | aux |
| 3 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 3 win | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 witted | punct |
| 6 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 witted | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 sharp | punct |
| 8 | witted | witted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 win | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 deceit | case |
| 10 | deceit | deceit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 witted | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 here | punct |
| 12 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 here | cc |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 here | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 Crane | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Crane | det |
| 16 | Crane | Crane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 only | obl |
| 17 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 win | parataxis |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 Crab | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Crab | det |
| 20 | Crab | Crab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 here | obl |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 win | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 win | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | may | villain | indeed property | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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