Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 34
How is it?" he continued, turning to the two young men. "
Who acts: case, Majesty · What happens: be, continue, turn
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 (case, Majesty), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 continued | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 How | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 How | nsubj |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 How | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 How | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 continued | nsubj |
| 7 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 turning | punct |
| 9 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 continued | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 men | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 men | det |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 men | nummod |
| 13 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 men | amod |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 turning | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 continued | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | case | how property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | continue in a quote | past | Majesty | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | turn in a quote | gerund | Majesty not said here | to the two young men result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to man=Result |
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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