Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 77
When the fish saw him, they asked him, "What are you sitting there for, lost in thought?"
Who acts: fish, Crane · What happens: see, ask, sit, lose · To what, where: Crane, thought · 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 (fish, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fish | det |
| 3 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 asked | advcl |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 asked | iobj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sitting | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 sitting | punct |
| 12 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 sitting | obj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 sitting | aux |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 sitting | nsubj |
| 15 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 asked | ccomp |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 sitting | advmod |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 sitting | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lost | punct |
| 19 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 sitting | parataxis |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 thought | case |
| 21 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lost | obl |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 lost | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 sitting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the fish | Crane | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | fish | Crane | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | sit in a quote | present · progressive | Crane | there | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lose in a quote | participle | thought | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in thought=Eventuality |
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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