Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 57
"What is the price of this cloth?" one trader will ask another.
Who acts: price one trader · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: price, another · 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 (price one trader), 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 | _ | 5 price | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 price | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 price | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 price | det |
| 5 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 trader | compound |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 cloth | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 cloth | det |
| 8 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 price | nmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 price | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 price | punct |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 trader | nummod |
| 12 | trader | trader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ask | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 ask | aux |
| 14 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 ask | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | price one trader | the price | of this cloth | tree rules | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | future | price one trader | another | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent another=Recipient |
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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