Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 101
"It's a he," replied the fisherwoman, and proceeded on her rounds.
Who acts: bottom, fate · What happens: be, reply, proceed · To what, where: fate, fisherwoman, rounds · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bottom, fate), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 he | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 he | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 he | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 he | det |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 he | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 he | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fisherwoman | det |
| 10 | fisherwoman | fisherwoman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 proceeded | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 proceeded | cc |
| 13 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 replied | conj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 rounds | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 rounds | nmod:poss |
| 16 | rounds | round | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 proceeded | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | bottom | fate | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | fate | the fisherwoman | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fisherwoman=Topic | ||||
| 3 | proceed | past | fate not said here | Fish's rounds | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: 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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