Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 16
He wants to know if the beam of this house is all right.
Who acts: man, beam · What happens: want, know, be, beam · To what, where: house
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 (man, beam), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wants | nsubj |
| 2 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 know | mark |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wants | xcomp |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 right | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 beam | det |
| 7 | beam | beam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 right | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 house | det |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 beam | nmod |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 right | cop |
| 12 | all | all | ADV | _ | 13 right | advmod |
| 13 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 know | ccomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wants | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | man | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | man not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | the beam of this house | all, right property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | beam | this house | nom beam «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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