Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 150
It is of no use to accuse either the goldsmith or the prince now.
Who acts: place · What happens: be, accuse · To what, where: goldsmith
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 (place), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 use | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 use | cop |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 use | case |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 use | det |
| 5 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 accuse | mark |
| 7 | accuse | accuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 use | acl |
| 8 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 10 goldsmith | cc:preconj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 goldsmith | det |
| 10 | goldsmith | goldsmith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 accuse | obj |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 prince | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 prince | det |
| 13 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 goldsmith | conj |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 accuse | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 use | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | place | of no use | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | accuse | to-infinitive | the goldsmith or the prince | now | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent goldsmith=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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