Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 22
Now where can these men have come from, that they do not know these things?
Who acts: men · What happens: come, not know · To what, where: things
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 come | advmod |
| 2 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 come | advmod |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 come | aux |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 men | det |
| 5 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 come | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 come | aux |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 come | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 know | punct |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 know | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 know | nsubj |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 know | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 know | advmod |
| 14 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 come | conj |
| 15 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 things | det |
| 16 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 know | obj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | can · perfect | this men | now | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not know | present · do-support | men = man | this things | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
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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