Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 57
"The laughing of the fish," said the girl, "which seems to have been the cause of all this trouble, indicates that there is a man in the palace who is plotting against the king's life."
Who acts: laughing, man, palace · What happens: say, seem, be, indicate, plot · To what, where: cause · 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 (laughing, man, palace), 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 | _ | 3 laughing | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 laughing | det |
| 3 | laughing | laughing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 fish | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fish | det |
| 6 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 laughing | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 laughing | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 laughing | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 girl | det |
| 11 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 seems | nsubj |
| 15 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 cause | mark |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 cause | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 cause | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cause | det |
| 20 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seems | xcomp |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 trouble | case |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 trouble | det:predet |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 trouble | det |
| 24 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cause | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 indicates | punct |
| 26 | indicates | indicate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 seems | conj |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 is | mark |
| 28 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 29 is | expl |
| 29 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 indicates | advcl |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 man | det |
| 31 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 is | nsubj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 palace | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 palace | det |
| 34 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 man | nmod |
| 35 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 plotting | nsubj |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 plotting | aux |
| 37 | plotting | plot | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 palace | acl:relcl |
| 38 | against | against | ADP | _ | 42 life | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 king | det |
| 40 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 life | nmod:poss |
| 41 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 40 king | case |
| 42 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 plotting | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 seems | punct |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the laughing of the fish | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | seem in a quote | present | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | to-infinitive · perfect | the cause | of all trouble | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | indicate in a quote | present | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 5 | be in a quote | present | a man in the palace | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | plot in a quote | present · progressive | the palace | against the king's life | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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