Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 29
"Oh! my brother, the water measures a man's height, Oh! my brother, the pitcher begins to fill."
Who acts: water, pitcher · What happens: measure, begin, fill · To what, where: height
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 (water, pitcher), 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 | _ | 9 measures | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 9 measures | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 brother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Oh | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 water | det |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 measures | nsubj |
| 9 | measures | measure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 height | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 man | case |
| 13 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 measures | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Oh | punct |
| 15 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 9 measures | discourse |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 measures | punct |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 brother | nmod:poss |
| 18 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 measures | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 begins | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 pitcher | det |
| 21 | pitcher | pitcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 begins | nsubj |
| 22 | begins | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 measures | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 fill | mark |
| 24 | fill | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 begins | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 measures | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 measures | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | measure in a quote | present | the water | a man's height | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | begin in a quote | present | the pitcher | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | fill in a quote | to-infinitive | the pitcher not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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