Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 40
He was not successful, in my opinion, in tracing the serious fairy tale to India.
Who acts: introduction, opinion, my · What happens: not be, trace, opine · To what, where: opinion, serious fairy tale
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 (introduction, opinion, my), 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 | 4 successful | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 successful | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 successful | advmod |
| 4 | successful | successful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 opinion | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 opinion | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 opinion | nmod:poss |
| 8 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 successful | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 tracing | punct |
| 10 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 11 tracing | mark |
| 11 | tracing | trace | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 opinion | acl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tale | det |
| 13 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tale | amod |
| 14 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tale | compound |
| 15 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tracing | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 India | case |
| 17 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 tale | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 successful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | introduction | my opinion | successful property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | trace | gerund | my opinion not said here | the serious fairy tale | to India | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Theme | |||
| 3 | opine | my | nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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