Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 153
This is but the first day of my father's prophecy.
Who acts: This · What happens: be · To what, where: first day
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 (This), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 day | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 day | cop |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 day | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 day | det |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 day | amod |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 prophecy | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 father | nmod:poss |
| 9 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 prophecy | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 father | case |
| 11 | prophecy | prophecy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 day | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 day | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | the first day | of my father's prophecy | 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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