Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 84
And there too finding no one to find fault, and hearing only his own praise, he determined to search the country places.
Who acts: hall · What happens: find, determine, search, praise · To what, where: one, fault, country places
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 (hall), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 finding | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 finding | expl |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 finding | advmod |
| 4 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 determined | advcl |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 one | det |
| 6 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 finding | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 find | mark |
| 8 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 one | acl |
| 9 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 find | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hearing | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 hearing | cc |
| 12 | hearing | hearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 finding | parataxis |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 praise | advmod |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 praise | nmod:poss |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 praise | amod |
| 16 | praise | praise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hearing | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 finding | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 determined | nsubj |
| 19 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 search | mark |
| 21 | search | search | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 determined | xcomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 places | det |
| 23 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 places | compound |
| 24 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 search | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 determined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | gerund | hall not said here | no one | there | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic | |||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | hall not said here | fault | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fault=Topic | ||||
| 3 | determine | past | hall | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | search | to-infinitive | hall not said here | the country places | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent place=Location | ||||
| 5 | praise | hall | nom praise «communication transitive»: poss=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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