Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 145
Every little village, much more a city, and such a city as this, has a name."
Who acts: little village · What happens: have · To what, where: name
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little village), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 village | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 village | amod |
| 3 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 has | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 city | punct |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 6 more | advmod |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 city | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 city | det |
| 8 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 village | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 city | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 city | cc |
| 11 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 city | det:predet |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 city | det |
| 13 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 village | conj |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 this | case |
| 15 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 city | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 village | punct |
| 17 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 name | det |
| 19 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 has | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 has | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | every little village and a city and such city as this | a name | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=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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