Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 48
"Silly maiden, thy words make a lot Of a very small matter; For fear of my valour, I wot, His armour will clatter.
Who acts: words, King, armour, thy · What happens: make, wot, clatter, word, fear · To what, where: lot, valour
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words, King, armour, thy), 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 | _ | 3 maiden | punct |
| 2 | Silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 maiden | amod |
| 3 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 make | punct |
| 5 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 words | nmod:poss |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 make | nsubj |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 maiden | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 lot | det |
| 9 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | obj |
| 10 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 14 matter | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 matter | det |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 small | advmod |
| 13 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 matter | amod |
| 14 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lot | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 wot | punct |
| 16 | For | for | ADP | _ | 17 fear | case |
| 17 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 wot | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 valour | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 valour | nmod:poss |
| 20 | valour | valour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fear | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fear | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 wot | nsubj |
| 23 | wot | wot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 maiden | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 clatter | punct |
| 25 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 armour | nmod:poss |
| 26 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 clatter | nsubj |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 clatter | aux |
| 28 | clatter | clatter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 wot | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 maiden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | present | thy words | a lot of a small matter | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset lot=Product | ||||
| 2 | wot in a quote | present | King | for fear of my valour | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | clatter in a quote | future | king's armour | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | word in a quote | thy | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | fear in a quote | my valour | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=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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