Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 81
He agreed to do so, not then, but some time afterwards.
Who acts: hand · What happens: agree, do
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 (hand), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 agreed | nsubj |
| 2 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 do | mark |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 agreed | xcomp |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 do | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 then | punct |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 then | advmod |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 do | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 afterwards | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 afterwards | cc |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 time | det |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 afterwards | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 2 agreed | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | hand | afterwards property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | hand not said here | then | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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