Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 20

Still he thought within himself, "Surely my father's prophecy never proved untrue.

Who acts: morsel, prophecy · What happens: think, not prove · 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 (morsel, prophecy), 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	Still	still	ADV	_	3 thought	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	within	within	ADP	_	5 himself	case
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 thought	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 proved	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 proved	punct
8	Surely	surely	ADV	_	14 proved	advmod
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 father	nmod:poss
10	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 prophecy	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 father	case
12	prophecy	prophecy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 proved	nsubj
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 proved	advmod
14	proved	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	conj
15	untrue	untrue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 proved	xcomp
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	morsel				still	within morsel	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not prove in a quote	past	my father's prophecy					surely, untrue property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=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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