Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 104
"No; but I am very much annoyed at the strange behaviour of a fish.
Who acts: King · What happens: be · To what, where: strange behaviour
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 (King), 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 | _ | 9 annoyed | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 9 annoyed | discourse |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 annoyed | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 annoyed | cc |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 annoyed | nsubj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 annoyed | cop |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 much | advmod |
| 8 | much | much | ADV | _ | 9 annoyed | advmod |
| 9 | annoyed | annoyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 behaviour | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 behaviour | det |
| 12 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 behaviour | amod |
| 13 | behaviour | behaviour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 annoyed | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 fish | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fish | det |
| 16 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 behaviour | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 annoyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | King | the strange behaviour of a fish | annoyed property | tree rules |
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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