Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 95
Then the Brahman, sad at heart, went further afield till he saw a buffalo turning a well-wheel; but he fared no better from it, for it answered, "You are a fool to expect gratitude!
Who acts: Brahman, buffalo, wheel, You · What happens: go, see, turn, fare, answer, be · To what, where: buffalo, wheel, fool, gratitude · 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 (Brahman, buffalo, wheel, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 Brahman | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Brahman | det |
| 3 | Brahman | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 went | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sad | punct |
| 5 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Brahman | amod |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 heart | case |
| 7 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sad | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Brahman | punct |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | further | further | ADV | _ | 11 afield | advmod |
| 11 | afield | afield | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 went | xcomp |
| 12 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 14 saw | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | advcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 buffalo | det |
| 16 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | obj |
| 17 | turning | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 buffalo | acl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 wheel | det |
| 19 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 wheel | advmod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 well | punct |
| 21 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 turning | obj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 fared | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 fared | cc |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 fared | nsubj |
| 25 | fared | fare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | parataxis |
| 26 | no | no | ADV | _ | 27 better | advmod |
| 27 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 fared | xcomp |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 it | case |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 better | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 answered | punct |
| 31 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 33 answered | mark |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 answered | nsubj |
| 33 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 fared | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 fool | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 fool | punct |
| 36 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 fool | nsubj |
| 37 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 fool | cop |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 fool | det |
| 39 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 answered | ccomp |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 expect | mark |
| 41 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 fool | acl |
| 42 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 expect | obj |
| 43 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the Brahman | afield property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Brahman | a buffalo | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer buffalo=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | turn | gerund | a buffalo not said here | a wheel | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wheel=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fare | past | Brahman | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | answer speech: express | past | wheel | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | present | You | a fool | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | expect in a quote | to-infinitive | wheel not said here | gratitude | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gratitude=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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