Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 81
So I was thinking, 'What in the world will these fish do now?'"
Who acts: I, fish · What happens: think, do · 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 (I, fish), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 thinking | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 thinking | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thinking | aux |
| 4 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 What | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 What | punct |
| 7 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 do | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 world | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 world | det |
| 10 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 What | obl |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 What | aux |
| 12 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 fish | det |
| 13 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 do | nsubj |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 thinking | ccomp |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 do | advmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 thinking | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 thinking | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 thinking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past · progressive | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do | present | this fish | now | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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