Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 3
But she, distracted by some domestic work, does not hear me.
Who acts: wife · What happens: distract, not hear · To what, where: me
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 (wife), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 distracted | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 distracted | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 distracted | punct |
| 4 | distracted | distract | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 work | case |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 work | det |
| 7 | domestic | domestic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 work | amod |
| 8 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 distracted | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hear | punct |
| 10 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 hear | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 hear | advmod |
| 12 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 distracted | advcl |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 hear | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 distracted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | distract | participle | wife | by some domestic work | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | not hear | present · do-support | wife not said here | me | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
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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