Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 36
Oh, Mr. Crow," said the poor fish "do see what is in my stomach that makes such a noise."
Who acts: Mr. Crow, poor fish, stomach · What happens: say, see, be, make · To what, where: stomach, noise · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mr. Crow, poor fish, stomach), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 Crow | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Crow | compound |
| 4 | Crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Crow | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Crow | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fish | det |
| 9 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fish | amod |
| 10 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 see | nsubj |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 see | aux |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 stomach | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 stomach | cop |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 stomach | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 stomach | nmod:poss |
| 18 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 see | ccomp |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 makes | nsubj |
| 20 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 stomach | acl:relcl |
| 21 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 noise | det:predet |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 noise | det |
| 23 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 makes | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Mr. Crow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | see | present · do-support | the poor fish | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | present | my stomach | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | make | present | my stomach | such noise | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=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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