Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 81
What shall I do all alone in this country?"
Who acts: I · What happens: do · To what, where: country
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 (I), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | acl:relcl |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 alone | advmod |
| 6 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 4 do | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 country | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 country | det |
| 9 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 do | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | shall | I | this country | alone property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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