Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 95
Therefore he lifted the goldsmith up, who now began his story. "
Who acts: Son · What happens: lift up, begin · To what, where: goldsmith, story
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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 3 lifted | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lifted | nsubj |
| 3 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 goldsmith | det |
| 5 | goldsmith | goldsmith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lifted | obj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 lifted | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 began | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 began | nsubj |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 began | advmod |
| 10 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lifted | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 story | nmod:poss |
| 12 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 began | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lifted | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift up | past | Son | the goldsmith | therefore property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goldsmith=Theme | |||
| 2 | begin | past | Son's story | now | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=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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