Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 85
It is nothing but a sad truth that goldsmiths ought never to be trusted.
Who acts: storey · What happens: be, not trust · To what, where: nothing, goldsmiths
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 (storey), 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 | 3 nothing | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 nothing | cop |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 truth | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 truth | det |
| 6 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 truth | amod |
| 7 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nothing | conj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 trusted | obj |
| 9 | goldsmiths | goldsmith | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 trusted | nsubj |
| 10 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 trusted | aux |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 trusted | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 trusted | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 trusted | aux:pass |
| 14 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 truth | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 nothing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | storey | nothing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not trust | ought · passive | storey not said here | goldsmiths | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme that=Eventuality |
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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