Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 94
The Soothsayer's son had no time to lose; he was himself dying of thirst.
Who acts: son · What happens: have, lose, die
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 (son), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Soothsayer | det |
| 2 | Soothsayer | Soothsayer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Soothsayer | case |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 lose | mark |
| 9 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 time | acl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 dying | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 dying | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 dying | aux |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 dying | nsubj |
| 14 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 had | advcl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 thirst | case |
| 16 | thirst | thirst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dying | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Soothsayer's son | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | lose | to-infinitive | the Soothsayer's son not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | die | past · progressive | Son | of thirst | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of thirst=Causer |
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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