Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 120
While going along he spoke to himself thus: "These beasts have been very faithful in their assistance.
Who acts: Gangazara, beasts, diamonds · What happens: go along, speak, be, assist · To what, where: Gangazara, assistance · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Gangazara, beasts, diamonds), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 2 going | mark |
| 2 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 spoke | advcl |
| 3 | along | along | ADP | _ | 2 going | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 spoke | nsubj |
| 5 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 himself | case |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 spoke | obl |
| 8 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 5 spoke | advmod |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 faithful | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 faithful | punct |
| 11 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 beasts | det |
| 12 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 faithful | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 faithful | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 faithful | cop |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 faithful | advmod |
| 16 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 spoke | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 assistance | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 assistance | nmod:poss |
| 19 | assistance | assistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 faithful | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go along | gerund | Gangazara not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | Gangazara | Gangazara | thus property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to himself=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | present · perfect | this beasts | diamonds's assistance | faithful property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | assist in a quote | diamonds = diamond | nom assistance «act 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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