Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 43
To this the son of seven Queens, after a little pretended hesitation, agreed, saying that after all it would not be difficult to find a nice tough skin like the Jogi's elsewhere; so, driving the wonderful cow before him, he set off homewards.
Who acts: lad · What happens: pretend, agree, say, not be, find, drive · To what, where: little pretended hesitation, nice tough skin, wonderful cow, homewards · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lad), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 son | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 son | det |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 son | det |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Queens | case |
| 6 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 Queens | nummod |
| 7 | Queens | queen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 son | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hesitation | punct |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 hesitation | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hesitation | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hesitation | amod |
| 12 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 hesitation | amod |
| 13 | hesitation | hesitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 son | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 agreed | punct |
| 15 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 hesitation | acl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 saying | punct |
| 17 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 agreed | advcl |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 difficult | mark |
| 19 | after | after | ADP | _ | 20 all | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 difficult | obl |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 difficult | expl |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 difficult | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 difficult | advmod |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 difficult | cop |
| 25 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 saying | ccomp |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 find | mark |
| 27 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 difficult | csubj |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 skin | det |
| 29 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 skin | amod |
| 30 | tough | tough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 skin | amod |
| 31 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 find | obj |
| 32 | like | like | ADP | _ | 36 elsewhere | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Jogi | det |
| 34 | Jogi | Jogi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 elsewhere | nmod:poss |
| 35 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 34 Jogi | case |
| 36 | elsewhere | elsewhere | ADV | _ | 31 skin | nmod |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 48 set | punct |
| 38 | so | so | ADV | _ | 48 set | advmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 driving | punct |
| 40 | driving | drive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 38 so | advcl |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 cow | det |
| 42 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 cow | amod |
| 43 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 driving | obj |
| 44 | before | before | ADP | _ | 45 him | case |
| 45 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 driving | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 set | punct |
| 47 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 set | nsubj |
| 48 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 son | acl |
| 49 | off | off | ADP | _ | 48 set | compound:prt |
| 50 | homewards | homeward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 set | obj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 48 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | participle | a little pretended hesitation not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | not is | would | after all | difficult property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | find | to-infinitive | a nice tough skin | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Topic | |||||
| 6 | drive | gerund | lad not said here | the wonderful cow | before lad | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cow=Theme before he=Destination | |||
| 7 | set off | past | lad | homewards | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition homeward=Patient |
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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