Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 40
How had he managed to live so long in the cell?
Who acts: man · What happens: have, manage, live · To what, where: cell
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 (man), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 had | advmod |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 managed | advcl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 managed | nsubj |
| 4 | managed | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 live | mark |
| 6 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 managed | xcomp |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 long | advmod |
| 8 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 live | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 cell | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cell | det |
| 11 | cell | cell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 live | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 managed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | man not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | manage | past | man | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | live | to-infinitive | man not said here | the cell | long property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cell=Location |
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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