Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 12
What this happiness is, is an enigma to me."
Who acts: happiness · What happens: be · To what, where: enigma, me
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (happiness), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 enigma | nsubj |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 happiness | det |
| 3 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 enigma | cop |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 enigma | det |
| 8 | enigma | enigma | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 me | case |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 enigma | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 enigma | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 enigma | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this happiness | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | a enigma | me | tree rules |
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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