Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 136
There was hardly ten rupees' worth left in the place.
Who acts: worth · What happens: be, leave · To what, where: worth, place
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (worth), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 2 was | advmod |
| 4 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 rupees | nummod |
| 5 | rupees | rupee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 worth | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 5 rupees | case |
| 7 | worth | worth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 8 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 worth | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 place | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 place | det |
| 11 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 left | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | ten rupees's worth | there | hardly property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | leave | participle | ten rupees's worth not said here | in the place result | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in place=Result |
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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