Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 143
He is bathing in the river, and is of such and such appearance," was the reply.
Who acts: prince · What happens: bath, be · To what, where: river, reply · 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 (prince), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bathing | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 bathing | aux |
| 3 | bathing | bath | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 river | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 river | det |
| 6 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bathing | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 appearance | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 appearance | cc |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 appearance | cop |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 appearance | case |
| 11 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 appearance | amod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 such | cc |
| 13 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 such | conj |
| 14 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bathing | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 appearance | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 appearance | punct |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 reply | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 reply | det |
| 19 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bathing | parataxis |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bathing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bath | present · progressive | prince | the river | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | of such appearance | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | past | the reply | 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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