Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 32
(And that is why the Wind in the hot weather is still so disagreeable.)
Who acts: that, Wind · What happens: be
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 (that, Wind), 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 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 why | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 why | cc |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 why | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 why | cop |
| 5 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Wind | det |
| 7 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 disagreeable | nsubj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 weather | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 weather | det |
| 10 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 weather | amod |
| 11 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Wind | nmod |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 disagreeable | cop |
| 13 | still | still | ADV | _ | 15 disagreeable | advmod |
| 14 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 15 disagreeable | case |
| 15 | disagreeable | disagreeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 why | advcl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 why | punct |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 why | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | that | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the Wind in the hot weather | still | disagreeable property | tree rules |
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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