Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 134
"Oh, dear me!--my head is beginning to whirl again!
Who acts: head · What happens: begin, whirl
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 (head), 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 | _ | 4 dear | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 dear | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 dear | nsubj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 dear | punct |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 beginning | punct |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 head | nmod:poss |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 beginning | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 beginning | aux |
| 11 | beginning | begin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 dear | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 whirl | mark |
| 13 | whirl | whirl | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 beginning | xcomp |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 whirl | advmod |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 dear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin in a quote | present · progressive | my head | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | whirl in a quote | to-infinitive | my head not said here | again | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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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