Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 120
Thought the Demon to himself: "Here's a lion of a man!
What happens: think, be · To what, where: Demon, Bodhisatta, lion · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Demon | det |
| 3 | Demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Thought | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 himself | case |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 Thought | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 lion | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Here | punct |
| 8 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 lion | advmod |
| 9 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 lion | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 lion | det |
| 11 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Thought | ccomp |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 man | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lion | nmod |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 lion | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the Demon | Bodhisatta | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot demon=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | a lion | here | of a man | 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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