Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 49
Now this true story shows that a farmer once got the better of a money-lender--but only by losing one of his eyes.
Who acts: true story, farmer · What happens: show, get, lose · To what, where: one · 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 (true story, farmer), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 shows | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 story | det |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 story | amod |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shows | nsubj |
| 5 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 got | mark |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 farmer | det |
| 8 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 got | nsubj |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 got | advmod |
| 10 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 shows | ccomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 better | det |
| 12 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 got | xcomp |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 lender | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 lender | det |
| 15 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lender | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 money | punct |
| 17 | lender | lender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 better | obl |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 losing | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 losing | cc |
| 20 | only | only | ADV | _ | 22 losing | advmod |
| 21 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 22 losing | mark |
| 22 | losing | lose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 shows | advcl |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 losing | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 eyes | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 26 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 one | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | this true story | now | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | get | past | a farmer | good, once property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | lose | gerund | this true story not said here | one of lender's eyes | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Eventuality |
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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