Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 15
But the fellow is such a fool that I cannot make anything out of him.
Who acts: fellow, I · What happens: be, not make · To what, where: fool, that
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: who acts (fellow, I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 fool | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fellow | det |
| 3 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fool | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 fool | cop |
| 5 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 fool | det:predet |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fool | det |
| 7 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 make | obj |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 make | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 make | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 make | advmod |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 fool | parataxis |
| 13 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 make | obj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 make | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fool | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the fellow | such fool | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not make | can | I | that | out man | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset that=Beneficiary anything=Product |
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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