Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 31
"Anger he conquers by calmness, And by goodness the wicked; The stingy he conquers by gifts, And by truth the speaker of lies.
Who acts: Anger, stingy · What happens: conquer · To what, where: truth
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 (Anger, stingy), 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 | _ | 2 Anger | punct |
| 2 | Anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 conquers | nsubj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 conquers | nsubj |
| 4 | conquers | conquer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 calmness | case |
| 6 | calmness | calmness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 conquers | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wicked | punct |
| 8 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wicked | cc |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 goodness | case |
| 10 | goodness | goodness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wicked | obl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wicked | det |
| 12 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 conquers | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 conquers | punct |
| 14 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 stingy | det |
| 15 | stingy | stingy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 conquers | nsubj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 conquers | nsubj |
| 17 | conquers | conquer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 conquers | conj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 gifts | case |
| 19 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 conquers | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 truth | punct |
| 21 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 truth | cc |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 truth | case |
| 23 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 conquers | obj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 speaker | det |
| 25 | speaker | speaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 truth | appos |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 lies | case |
| 27 | lies | lie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 speaker | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 conquers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conquer in a quote | present | Anger | by calmness | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | conquer in a quote | present | the stingy | truth | by gifts | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=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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