Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 31
Therefore he went over to the simple farmer's house, and congratulated him on his good fortune, in such cunning words, pretending to have heard all about it, that before long the farmer found himself telling the whole story--all except the secret of blowing the conch, for, with all his simplicity, the farmer was not quite such a fool as to tell that.
Who acts: fortune, that, farmer, secret · What happens: go over, congratulate, pretend, hear, long, find · To what, where: fortune, good fortune, whole story, conch, fool · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fortune, that, farmer, secret), 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | over | over | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 farmer | det |
| 7 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 farmer | amod |
| 8 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 house | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 farmer | case |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 congratulated | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 congratulated | cc |
| 13 | congratulated | congratulate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 congratulated | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 fortune | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fortune | amod |
| 18 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 congratulated | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 words | punct |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 words | case |
| 21 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 words | amod |
| 22 | cunning | cunning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 words | compound |
| 23 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 congratulated | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 pretending | punct |
| 25 | pretending | pretend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 congratulated | advcl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 heard | mark |
| 27 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 heard | aux |
| 28 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 pretending | xcomp |
| 29 | all | all | ADV | _ | 28 heard | advmod |
| 30 | about | about | ADP | _ | 31 it | case |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 heard | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 long | punct |
| 33 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 long | nsubj |
| 34 | before | before | ADV | _ | 35 long | advmod |
| 35 | long | long | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 38 found | advcl |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 farmer | det |
| 37 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 found | nsubj |
| 38 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 39 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 38 found | obj |
| 40 | telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 38 found | xcomp |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 story | det |
| 42 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 story | amod |
| 43 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 telling | obj |
| 44 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 45 all | punct |
| 45 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 40 telling | obl |
| 46 | except | except | ADP | _ | 48 secret | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 secret | det |
| 48 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 telling | obl |
| 49 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 50 blowing | mark |
| 50 | blowing | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 48 secret | acl |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 conch | det |
| 52 | conch | conch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 blowing | obj |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 59 simplicity | punct |
| 54 | for | for | ADP | _ | 59 simplicity | case |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 59 simplicity | punct |
| 56 | with | with | ADP | _ | 59 simplicity | case |
| 57 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 59 simplicity | det:predet |
| 58 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 59 simplicity | nmod:poss |
| 59 | simplicity | simplicity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 telling | obl |
| 60 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 68 fool | punct |
| 61 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 62 farmer | det |
| 62 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 68 fool | nsubj |
| 63 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 68 fool | cop |
| 64 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 68 fool | advmod |
| 65 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 68 fool | advmod |
| 66 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 68 fool | det:predet |
| 67 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 68 fool | det |
| 68 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 simplicity | appos |
| 69 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 71 tell | mark |
| 70 | to | to | PART | _ | 71 tell | mark |
| 71 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 68 fool | acl |
| 72 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 71 tell | obj |
| 73 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go over | past | fortune | to the simple farmer's house; over, therefore property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | congratulate | past | fortune not said here | fortune | fortune's good fortune | in such cunning words | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||
| 3 | pretend | gerund | fortune not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | hear | to-infinitive · perfect | fortune not said here | about word; all property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about it=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | long | gerund | that | before property | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 6 | find | past | the farmer | fortune | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 7 | tell speech: assert | gerund | fortune not said here | the whole story | except the secret; for fortune's simplicity; all obl | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | |||
| 8 | blow | gerund | the secret not said here | the conch | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent conch=Patient | ||||
| 9 | not is a | past | the farmer | such fool | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | fortune not said here | such fool | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=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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