Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 21
The Indian stories were also used by the Italian _Novellieri_, much of Boccaccio and his school being derived from this source.
Who acts: Italian Novellieri · What happens: use, derive · To what, where: Indian stories, school, source
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Italian Novellieri), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 stories | det |
| 2 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stories | amod |
| 3 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 used | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 used | aux:pass |
| 5 | also | also | ADV | _ | 6 used | advmod |
| 6 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 Novellieri | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Novellieri | det |
| 9 | Italian | Italian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Novellieri | amod |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 Italian | punct |
| 11 | Novellieri | Novellieri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 used | obl:agent |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 Novellieri | punct |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 much | punct |
| 14 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Novellieri | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Boccaccio | case |
| 16 | Boccaccio | Boccaccio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 much | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 derived | cc |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 school | nmod:poss |
| 19 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 derived | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 derived | aux:pass |
| 21 | derived | derive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 much | conj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 source | case |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 source | det |
| 24 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 derived | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past · passive | the Italian Novellieri | the Indian stories | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | derive | gerund · passive | Boccaccio's school | this source | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from source=Material |
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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