Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 115
The vizier promised to do his best, though he felt almost certain of failure.
Who acts: vizier · What happens: promise, do, feel · To what, where: best
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 (vizier), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 vizier | det |
| 2 | vizier | vizier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 promised | nsubj |
| 3 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 do | mark |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 promised | xcomp |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 best | nmod:poss |
| 7 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 do | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 felt | punct |
| 9 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 11 felt | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 felt | nsubj |
| 11 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 promised | conj |
| 12 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 13 certain | advmod |
| 13 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 felt | xcomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 failure | case |
| 15 | failure | failure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 certain | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | the vizier | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | the vizier not said here | vizier's best | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | feel | past | vizier | certain property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: 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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