Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 80
"Why," he replied; "there is very little water in this pond, and but little for you to eat; and the heat is so great!
Who acts: Crane, little water, you, heat · What happens: reply, be, eat · To what, where: little, pond · 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 (Crane, little water, you, heat), 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 | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 replied | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 is | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 is | punct |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 is | expl |
| 10 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 replied | ccomp |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 little | advmod |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 water | amod |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 is | nsubj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 pond | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 pond | det |
| 16 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 is | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 little | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 little | cc |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 little | cc |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 replied | obl |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 eat | mark |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 eat | nsubj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 eat | mark |
| 24 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 little | acl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 great | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 great | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 heat | det |
| 28 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 great | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 great | cop |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 great | advmod |
| 31 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 replied | conj |
| 32 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: express | past | Crane | little | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | little water | this pond; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pond=Location | ||||
| 3 | eat in a quote | to-infinitive | you | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | the heat | great property | tree rules |
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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