Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 38
Had I known that she or anybody had been near I should not have shot in that direction."
Who acts: I · What happens: know, not shoot · To what, where: wife, direction · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I), 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 | Had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 known | aux |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 known | nsubj |
| 3 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 shot | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 shot | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 anybody | cc |
| 7 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 she | conj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 shot | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 shot | aux:pass |
| 10 | near | near | ADP | _ | 15 shot | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 shot | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 shot | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 shot | advmod |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 shot | aux |
| 15 | shot | shoot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 known | ccomp |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 direction | case |
| 17 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 direction | det |
| 18 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shot | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 known | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past · perfect | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not shoot | should · past · perfect · passive | wife | that direction | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme in direction=Destination |
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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