Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 58

I married a very poor, common-looking man."

Who acts: I · What happens: marry, look · To what, where: poor looking man

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18. 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 married	nsubj
2	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 man	det
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 poor	advmod
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 poor	punct
7	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 looking	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 common	punct
9	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 married	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 married	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 married	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	past	I	a poor looking man					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient
2	look	gerund							vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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