Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 46
Anyhow, I am so near to him that I could not get away."
Who acts: I · What happens: be, not get away · To what, where: man
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 (I), 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 | Anyhow | anyhow | INTJ | _ | 13 get | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Anyhow | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 near | nsubj |
| 4 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 near | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 near | advmod |
| 6 | near | near | ADV | _ | 13 get | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 near | obl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 get | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 get | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 get | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 get | advmod |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 get | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 get | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | man | near property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not get away | could | I | away property | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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