Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 11
It will be much better to test him by some new artifice."
Who acts: It · What happens: be, test · To what, where: king
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 better | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 better | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 better | cop |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 better | advmod |
| 5 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 test | mark |
| 7 | test | test | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 better | csubj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 test | obj |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 artifice | case |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 artifice | det |
| 11 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 artifice | amod |
| 12 | artifice | artifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 test | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 better | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 better | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | It | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | test | to-infinitive | king | by some new artifice | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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