Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 30
If you laugh, why do you weep?
Who acts: you · What happens: laugh, weep
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 (you), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 laugh | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 laugh | nsubj |
| 3 | laugh | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 weep | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 laugh | punct |
| 5 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 weep | advmod |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 weep | aux |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 weep | nsubj |
| 8 | weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 weep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | weep | present · do-support | you | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: 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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