Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 40
Till now no one has been able to ride me, but this child shall ride me."
Who acts: one, child · What happens: be, ride · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, child), 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 | Till | till | SCONJ | _ | 7 able | mark |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 able | advmod |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 one | det |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 able | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 able | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 able | cop |
| 7 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 ride | mark |
| 9 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 able | xcomp |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 ride | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ride | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 ride | cc |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 child | det |
| 14 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ride | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 ride | aux |
| 16 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 ride | conj |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 ride | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 able | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · perfect | no one | now | able property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | ride | to-infinitive | no one not said here | me | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ride | shall | this child | me | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/23/40/