Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 74
And a crane thought on seeing the fish:
Who acts: crane · What happens: think, see · To what, where: fish
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 (crane), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 thought | cc |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 crane | det |
| 3 | crane | crane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 6 seeing | mark |
| 6 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 thought | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fish | det |
| 8 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seeing | obj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | participle | a crane | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | see | gerund | a crane not said here | the fish | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fish=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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