Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 35
(And that is why the moon's light is so soft, and cool, and beautiful even to this day.)
Who acts: that, light, moon · What happens: be, light
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, light, moon), 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 | _ | 12 soft | 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=Int | 12 soft | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 moon | det |
| 7 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 light | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 moon | case |
| 9 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 soft | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 soft | cop |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 soft | advmod |
| 12 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cool | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 cool | cc |
| 15 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 soft | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 beautiful | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 beautiful | cc |
| 18 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 soft | conj |
| 19 | even | even | ADV | _ | 22 day | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 day | case |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 day | det |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 beautiful | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 soft | punct |
| 24 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 soft | 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 moon's light | soft property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | the moon's light not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | be | the moon's light not said here | day | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | light | the moon | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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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