Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 102
You look as miserable as a fish out of water!"
Who acts: You · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 miserable | nsubj |
| 2 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 miserable | cop |
| 3 | as | as | ADV | _ | 4 miserable | advmod |
| 4 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 fish | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fish | det |
| 7 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 miserable | obl |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fish | nmod |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 miserable | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 miserable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | You | as a fish out water; miserable 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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