Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 127
"What a fool the man is!" thought the old farmer.
Who acts: fool · What happens: be, think · To what, where: fool, old farmer · 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 (fool), 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 | _ | 4 fool | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 fool | nsubj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 fool | det |
| 4 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thought | nsubj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 is | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fool | cop |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 fool | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 fool | punct |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 farmer | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 farmer | amod |
| 13 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thought | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | a fool | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | a fool | the old farmer | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot farmer=Theme |
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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