Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 95
He made great game of him, and repeated a verse of poetry:
Who acts: Crow · What happens: make, repeat, verse · To what, where: great game, verse, poetry
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 (Crow), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 game | amod |
| 4 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 game | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 repeated | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 repeated | cc |
| 9 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 verse | det |
| 11 | verse | verse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 repeated | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 poetry | case |
| 13 | poetry | poetry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 verse | nmod |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Crow | great game of Dinner | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Product | ||||
| 2 | repeat | past | Crow not said here | a verse of poetry | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verse=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | verse | poetry | nom verse «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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