Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 46
His hair had first to be cut before his face could be seen.
Who acts: hair · What happens: have, cut, see · To what, where: face
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 (hair), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 hair | nmod:poss |
| 2 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 had | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 cut | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 cut | aux:pass |
| 7 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 had | xcomp |
| 8 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 13 seen | mark |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 face | nmod:poss |
| 10 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 seen | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 seen | aux:pass |
| 13 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 cut | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Gangazara's hair | first property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cut | to-infinitive · passive | Gangazara's hair not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 3 | see | could · passive | Gangazara's face | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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