Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 40
"Truly a matter for laughing and weeping.
Who acts: matter · 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 (matter), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 matter | punct |
| 2 | Truly | truly | ADV | _ | 4 matter | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 matter | det |
| 4 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 6 laughing | mark |
| 6 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 matter | acl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 weeping | cc |
| 8 | weeping | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 laughing | conj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 matter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh in a quote | gerund | a matter not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | weep in a quote | gerund | a matter not said here | 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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