Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 89
The pleasure of Gangazara was so great that he died of joy.
Who acts: pleasure, Gangazara · What happens: be, die, please · To what, where: Gangazara
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 (pleasure, Gangazara), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 pleasure | det |
| 2 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 great | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Gangazara | case |
| 4 | Gangazara | Gangazara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 pleasure | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 great | cop |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 great | advmod |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 died | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 died | nsubj |
| 10 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 great | advcl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 joy | case |
| 12 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 died | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 great | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the pleasure of Gangazara | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | die | past | Gangazara | of joy | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of joy=Causer | ||||
| 3 | please | Gangazara | nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: of=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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