Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 27
"If these are his _virtues_, where are then his faults?" replied he.
Who acts: these, _ virtues, virtue · What happens: be, reply, fault · To what, where: _ virtues · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (these, _ virtues, virtue), 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 | _ | 17 replied | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 virtues | mark |
| 3 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 virtues | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 virtues | cop |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 virtues | nmod:poss |
| 6 | _ | _ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 virtues | amod |
| 7 | virtues | virtue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 replied | nsubj |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 replied | punct |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 replied | punct |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 then | advmod |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 then | cop |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 replied | advmod |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 faults | nmod:poss |
| 14 | faults | fault | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 replied | nsubj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 faults | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 faults | punct |
| 17 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 replied | nsubj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | these | king's _ virtues | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | then property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | reply speech: ask | past | king's _ virtues | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | fault in a quote | virtue | nom fault «act 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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