Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 84
"That a crane should take thought for the fishes is a thing unheard of, sir, since the world began.
Who acts: world · What happens: think, be, begin · To what, where: crane, thing · 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 (world), 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 | _ | 7 thought | punct |
| 2 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 crane | det |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 crane | det |
| 4 | crane | crane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 thought | aux |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 thought | aux:pass |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 fishes | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fishes | det |
| 10 | fishes | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 thought | obl |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 thing | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 thing | det |
| 13 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thought | ccomp |
| 14 | unheard | unheard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 thing | amod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 unheard | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sir | punct |
| 17 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 thing | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 began | punct |
| 19 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 22 began | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 world | det |
| 21 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 began | nsubj |
| 22 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 thought | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | should · passive | that crane | for the fishes | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | a thing and sir | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | begin in a quote | past | the world | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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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