Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 69
One ought to draw the line somewhere.
Who acts: One · What happens: draw · To what, where: line
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 (One), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 draw | nsubj |
| 2 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 draw | aux |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 draw | mark |
| 4 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 line | det |
| 6 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 draw | obj |
| 7 | somewhere | somewhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 draw | advmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 draw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | ought | One | the line | somewhere property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=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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