Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 23
1890), it is not surprising that we can at times trace portions of Shakespeare back to India.
Who acts: material · What happens: not be, trace · To what, where: portions
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 (material), 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 | 1890 | 1890 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 surprising | obl |
| 2 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 1 1890 | punct |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 surprising | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 surprising | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 surprising | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 surprising | advmod |
| 7 | surprising | surprising | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 can | mark |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 can | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 trace | aux |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 times | case |
| 12 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 trace | obl |
| 13 | trace | trace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 surprising | conj |
| 14 | portions | portion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 trace | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Shakespeare | case |
| 16 | Shakespeare | Shakespeare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 portions | nmod |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 trace | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 India | case |
| 19 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 back | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 surprising | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | material | 1890 obl; surprising property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | trace | can | material not said here | portions of Shakespeare | time | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portion=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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