Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 94
But the Bodhisatta, having confidence in himself, went straight on, fearless as a maned lion.
Who acts: Bodhisatta · What happens: have, go · To what, where: confidence
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 (Bodhisatta), 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 | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Bodhisatta | det |
| 3 | Bodhisatta | Bodhisatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 went | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 having | punct |
| 5 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 Bodhisatta | acl |
| 6 | confidence | confidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 having | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 himself | case |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 having | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Bodhisatta | punct |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 12 on | advmod |
| 12 | on | on | ADV | _ | 10 went | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fearless | punct |
| 14 | fearless | fearless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 went | xcomp |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 lion | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 lion | det |
| 17 | maned | maned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 lion | amod |
| 18 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fearless | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | the Bodhisatta not said here | confidence | in Bodhisatta | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent confidence=Patient | |||
| 2 | go | past | the Bodhisatta | fearless property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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