Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 98
The Brahman, still more sad, asked the road to give him its opinion.
Who acts: Brahman, road · What happens: ask, give, opine · To what, where: road, opinion, Brahman · 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, road), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Brahman | det |
| 2 | Brahman | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sad | punct |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 more | advmod |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 sad | advmod |
| 6 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Brahman | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Brahman | punct |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 road | det |
| 10 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 give | mark |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 asked | ccomp |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 give | iobj |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 opinion | nmod:poss |
| 15 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 give | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the Brahman | the road | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent road=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | road's opinion | Brahman | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient opinion=Theme | ||||
| 3 | opine | road | nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=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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