Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 66
Till now you have been poor, and ugly, and common-looking.
Who acts: you · What happens: be, look
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 (you), 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 | ADP | _ | 2 now | case |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 poor | obl |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 poor | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 poor | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 poor | cop |
| 6 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ugly | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ugly | cc |
| 9 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 poor | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 looking | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 looking | cc |
| 12 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 looking | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 common | punct |
| 14 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 poor | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 poor | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · perfect | you | poor property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | you not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | look | gerund | you not said here | 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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