Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 40
But Majnun insisted on going in, and in spite of all Laili could say, he got off the horse to look at the flowers.
Who acts: Majnun, Laili, man · What happens: insist, go in, say, get off, look · To what, where: horse, spite · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Majnun, Laili, man), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 insisted | cc |
| 2 | Majnun | Majnun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 insisted | nsubj |
| 3 | insisted | insist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 5 going | mark |
| 5 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 insisted | advcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADV | _ | 5 going | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 got | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 got | cc |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 spite | case |
| 10 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 got | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 all | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 spite | nmod |
| 13 | Laili | Laili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 say | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 say | aux |
| 15 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 all | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 spite | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 got | nsubj |
| 18 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 insisted | conj |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 21 horse | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 horse | det |
| 21 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 got | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 look | mark |
| 23 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 got | advcl |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 flowers | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 flowers | det |
| 26 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 look | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 insisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | insist speech: other | past | Majnun | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go in | gerund | Majnun not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | could | Laili | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | get off | past | man | the horse | spite of all | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | look | to-infinitive | man not said here | at the flowers | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at flower=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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