Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 54
This happening every day, the other members of the household thought that some girl friend of theirs was in this manner showing her interest in the young man, so they did not trouble themselves to find out how it came about.
Who acts: This, other members, girl friend, manner, members, trouble · What happens: happen, think, be, show, do, find out · To what, where: manner, interest, trouble · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (This, other members, girl friend, manner), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 happening | nsubj |
| 2 | happening | happen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 thought | advcl |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 day | det |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 happening | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 happening | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 members | det |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 members | amod |
| 8 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 thought | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 household | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 household | det |
| 11 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 members | nmod |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 manner | mark |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 friend | det |
| 15 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 friend | compound |
| 16 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 manner | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 theirs | case |
| 18 | theirs | their | PRON | Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 friend | nmod |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 manner | cop |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 manner | case |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 manner | det |
| 22 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 thought | ccomp |
| 23 | showing | show | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 manner | acl |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 interest | nmod:poss |
| 25 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 showing | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 man | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 man | det |
| 28 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 man | amod |
| 29 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 interest | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 did | punct |
| 31 | so | so | ADV | _ | 33 did | advmod |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 did | nsubj |
| 33 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 thought | conj |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 trouble | advmod |
| 35 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 did | obj |
| 36 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 33 did | obl:unmarked |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 find | mark |
| 38 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 did | advcl |
| 39 | out | out | ADP | _ | 38 find | compound:prt |
| 40 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 42 came | advmod |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 came | nsubj |
| 42 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 find | ccomp |
| 43 | about | about | ADV | _ | 42 came | advmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | gerund | This | day | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the other members of the household | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | some girl friend of members | this manner | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | show | gerund | this manner not said here | friend's interest | in the young man | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent interest=Patient in man=Topic | |||
| 5 | do | past | members = member | trouble | members = member obl:unmarked | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Eventuality | |||
| 6 | find out | to-infinitive | members = member not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | come about | past | trouble | about property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | interest | friend | in the young man | nom interest «cognition transitive»: poss=agent in=obl |
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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