Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 55
The young chief, however, was determined to watch, and see which of his girl friends was so attentive to his comfort.
Who acts: young chief, man · What happens: be, watch, see, comfort
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 (young chief, man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 chief | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 chief | amod |
| 3 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 attentive | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 chief | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 determined | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 determined | cop |
| 8 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 chief | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 watch | mark |
| 10 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 determined | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 see | cc |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 watch | conj |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 see | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 friends | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 friends | nmod:poss |
| 17 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 friends | compound |
| 18 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 which | nmod |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 attentive | cop |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 attentive | advmod |
| 21 | attentive | attentive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 comfort | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 comfort | nmod:poss |
| 24 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 attentive | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 attentive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the young chief not said here | determined, however property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | watch | to-infinitive | the young chief not said here | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | the young chief not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | is | past | the young chief | to man's comfort; attentive property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | comfort | man | nom comfort «state transitive»: poss=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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