Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 99
There is not a grain of rice left in the house."
Who acts: grain · What happens: not be, leave · To what, where: grain, house
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 (grain), 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 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 is | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 grain | det |
| 5 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 rice | case |
| 7 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grain | nmod |
| 8 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 grain | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 house | det |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 left | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not be | present | a grain of rice | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | participle | a grain of rice not said here | in the house result | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in house=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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