Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 85
It will provoke tears, and Gulizar will ask you why you are crying.
Who acts: little, Gulizar, you · What happens: provoke, ask, cry · To what, where: tears, you
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 (little, Gulizar, you), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 provoke | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 provoke | aux |
| 3 | provoke | provoke | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 provoke | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ask | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ask | cc |
| 7 | Gulizar | Gulizar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 ask | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 ask | aux |
| 9 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 provoke | conj |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 ask | iobj |
| 11 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 crying | advmod |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 crying | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 crying | aux |
| 14 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 ask | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 provoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | provoke | future | little | tears | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus tear=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | future | Gulizar | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | present · progressive | you | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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