Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 75
"I must outwit these fish somehow or other and make a prey of them."
Who acts: crane · What happens: outwit, make · To what, where: fish, prey
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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 outwit | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 outwit | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 outwit | aux |
| 4 | outwit | outwit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 fish | det |
| 6 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 outwit | obj |
| 7 | somehow | somehow | ADV | _ | 4 outwit | advmod |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 other | cc |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 somehow | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 make | cc |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 outwit | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 prey | det |
| 13 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 make | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 prey | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 outwit | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 outwit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | outwit in a quote | must | a crane = crane | this fish | somehow property | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot fish=Theme | |||
| 2 | make in a quote | present | a crane = crane not said here | a prey of fish | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset prey=Product |
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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