Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 133
And he was sad because he had pretended to have knowledge.
Who acts: Harisarman · What happens: be, pretend, have · To what, where: knowledge
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Harisarman), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 sad | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sad | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sad | cop |
| 4 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 pretended | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 pretended | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 pretended | aux |
| 8 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 sad | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 have | mark |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 pretended | xcomp |
| 11 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Harisarman | sad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pretend | past · perfect | Harisarman | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have | to-infinitive | Harisarman not said here | knowledge | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knowledge=Patient |
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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