Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 17
The man must be mad!" and saying this, he burst into a fit of laughter.
Who acts: man · What happens: be, say, burst · To what, where: this, fit · 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: who acts (man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mad | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 mad | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 mad | cop |
| 5 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 mad | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 mad | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 saying | cc |
| 9 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 mad | conj |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 saying | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 burst | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 burst | nsubj |
| 13 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 mad | parataxis |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 fit | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fit | det |
| 16 | fit | fit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 burst | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 laughter | case |
| 18 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fit | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 mad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | must | the man | mad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | gerund | the man not said here | this | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic | ||||
| 3 | burst in a quote | past | man | a fit of laughter | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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