Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 17
He felt interested in him, as his wife was very ill; and he had sought for hakims to cure her, but in vain.
Who acts: News, wife · What happens: feel, be, seek, cure · To what, where: wife
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (News, wife), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | interested | interested | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 felt | xcomp |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 interested | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ill | punct |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 ill | mark |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ill | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 ill | cop |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 ill | advmod |
| 12 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 felt | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 sought | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sought | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sought | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 sought | aux |
| 17 | sought | seek | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 felt | conj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 hakims | case |
| 19 | hakims | hakim | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 sought | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 cure | mark |
| 21 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 sought | advcl |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 cure | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 vain | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 vain | cc |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 vain | case |
| 26 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 sought | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | News | interested property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | prince's wife | ill property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | seek | past · perfect | News | for hakims | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for hakim=Theme | ||||
| 4 | cure | to-infinitive | News not said here | wife | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer she=Source |
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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