Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 53
The robbers were all uneducated, and thought that the leader was merely singing a song as usual.
Who acts: robbers, leader · What happens: be, think, sing · To what, where: song
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 (robbers, leader), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 robbers | det |
| 2 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 uneducated | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 uneducated | cop |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 uneducated | advmod |
| 5 | uneducated | uneducated | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 thought | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 thought | cc |
| 8 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 uneducated | parataxis |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 singing | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 leader | det |
| 11 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 singing | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 singing | aux |
| 13 | merely | merely | ADV | _ | 14 singing | advmod |
| 14 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 thought | advcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 song | det |
| 16 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 singing | obj |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 usual | case |
| 18 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 singing | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 uneducated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the robbers | all, uneducated property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | past · progressive | the leader | a song | as usual; merely property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme |
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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