Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 71
The Cruel Crane Outwitted
What happens: outwit · To what, where: Cruel Crane
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: 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 Crane | det |
| 2 | Cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Crane | amod |
| 3 | Crane | Crane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Outwitted | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | Outwitted | outwit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | outwit | participle | the Cruel Crane | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
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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