Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 32
"Are not two stout sticks as good as two horses for helping one along on the road?
Who acts: two stout sticks · What happens: be, help · To what, where: one, road
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 (two stout sticks), 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 | _ | 8 good | punct |
| 2 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 good | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 two | advmod |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 sticks | nummod |
| 5 | stout | stout | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sticks | amod |
| 6 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 good | nsubj |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 good | advmod |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 horses | case |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 horses | nummod |
| 11 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 good | obl |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 helping | mark |
| 13 | helping | help | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 good | advcl |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 helping | obj |
| 15 | along | along | ADV | _ | 13 helping | advmod |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 road | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 road | det |
| 18 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 helping | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | two stout sticks | as two horses; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | help in a quote | gerund | two stout sticks not said here | one | the road | along property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Beneficiary |
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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