Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 6
Secret crimes manifest themselves by means of fear."
Who acts: Secret crimes · What happens: manifest, mean · To what, where: crimes
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 (Secret crimes), 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 | Secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 crimes | amod |
| 2 | crimes | crime | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 manifest | nsubj |
| 3 | manifest | manifest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 manifest | obj |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 means | case |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 manifest | parataxis |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 fear | case |
| 8 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 manifest | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 manifest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | manifest | present | Secret crimes | crimes = crime | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | of fear | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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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