Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 47
They have been playing tricks with you."
Who acts: elephants · What happens: play · To what, where: tricks
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 (elephants), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 playing | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 playing | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 playing | aux |
| 4 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 playing | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 playing | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 playing | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 playing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | present · perfect · progressive | elephants = elephant | tricks | with you | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent trick=Theme with you=Co-Agent |
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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