Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 96
"Who is this tufted crane I see Lying where he's no right to be?
Who acts: Dinner, tufted crane, Crow · What happens: tuft, be, see, lie · To what, where: tufted crane, right
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 (Dinner, tufted crane, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 crane | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 crane | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 crane | cop |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 crane | det |
| 5 | tufted | tuft | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 crane | amod |
| 6 | crane | crane | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 see | nsubj |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 crane | acl:relcl |
| 9 | Lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 see | xcomp |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 right | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 right | nsubj |
| 12 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 right | cop |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 right | det |
| 14 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Lying | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 be | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 right | acl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 crane | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tuft in a quote | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | this tufted crane | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see in a quote | present | Dinner | this tufted crane not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | lie in a quote | gerund | this tufted crane not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | Crow | no right | 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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