Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 116
For five months he laboured indefatigably to find a reason for the laughter of the fish.
Who acts: vizier · What happens: labour, find · To what, where: reason
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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 months | case |
| 2 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 months | nummod |
| 3 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 laboured | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 laboured | nsubj |
| 5 | laboured | labour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | indefatigably | indefatigably | ADV | _ | 5 laboured | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 find | mark |
| 8 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 laboured | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 reason | det |
| 10 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 find | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 laughter | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 laughter | det |
| 13 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reason | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 fish | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fish | det |
| 16 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 laughter | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 laboured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | labour | past | vizier | month | indefatigably property | vn work-73.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | vizier not said here | a reason | for the laughter of the fish | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent reason=Theme for laughter=Beneficiary |
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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