Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 30
Of course the people agreed, and were highly delighted.
Who acts: people · What happens: agree, be
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 (people), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 2 course | case |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 agreed | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 people | det |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 agreed | nsubj |
| 5 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 delighted | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 delighted | cc |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 delighted | cop |
| 9 | highly | highly | ADV | _ | 10 delighted | advmod |
| 10 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 agreed | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | the people | of course | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the people not said here | delighted, highly property | tree rules |
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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