Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 59
Gangazara thought several times of the eloquent way in which the tiger spoke, and admired his fluency of speech.
Who acts: Gangazara, tiger · What happens: think, speak, admire · To what, where: eloquent way, fluency · 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, tiger), 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 | Gangazara | Gangazara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 times | amod |
| 4 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 thought | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 way | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 way | det |
| 7 | eloquent | eloquent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 way | amod |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 times | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 spoke | obl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tiger | det |
| 12 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 spoke | nsubj |
| 13 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 way | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 admired | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 admired | cc |
| 16 | admired | admire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thought | conj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 fluency | nmod:poss |
| 18 | fluency | fluency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 admired | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 speech | case |
| 20 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fluency | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Gangazara | time | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | the tiger | the eloquent way | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | admire | past | Gangazara not said here | Gangazara's fluency of speech | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fluency=Stimulus |
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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