Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 122
Thus the fable of the Lion and the Crane, which opens the present collection, is introduced by a "Story of the Present" in the following words:--
Who acts: fable, Story · What happens: open, introduce, follow · To what, where: present collection
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fable, Story), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 12 opens | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fable | det |
| 3 | fable | fable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 opens | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Lion | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Lion | det |
| 6 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fable | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Crane | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Crane | det |
| 9 | Crane | Crane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Lion | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 opens | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 opens | nsubj |
| 12 | opens | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 collection | det |
| 14 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 collection | amod |
| 15 | collection | collection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 opens | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 introduced | punct |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 introduced | aux:pass |
| 18 | introduced | introduce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 opens | conj |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 Story | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 Story | det |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Story | punct |
| 22 | Story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 introduced | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Present | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Present | det |
| 25 | Present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Story | nmod |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 Present | punct |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 words | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 words | det |
| 29 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 words | amod |
| 30 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 Present | nmod |
| 31 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 opens | punct |
| 32 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 opens | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | present | the fable of the Lion and the Crane | the present collection | thus property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location collection=Theme | |||
| 2 | introduce | present · passive | a Story of the Present in the following words | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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