Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 9
FOR TEN YEARS, IMPRISONMENT'--a fate harder than poverty; and what comes next? '
What happens: come
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: 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 | FOR | for | ADV | _ | 3 YEARS | advmod |
| 2 | TEN | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 YEARS | nummod |
| 3 | YEARS | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 harder | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 IMPRISONMENT | punct |
| 5 | IMPRISONMENT | imprisonment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 YEARS | appos |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 IMPRISONMENT | punct |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 harder | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fate | det |
| 9 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 harder | nsubj |
| 10 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 poverty | case |
| 12 | poverty | poverty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 harder | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 comes | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 comes | cc |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 comes | nsubj |
| 16 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 harder | parataxis |
| 17 | next | next | ADV | _ | 16 comes | advmod |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 harder | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 harder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | next property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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