Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 50
Another collection from Bengal was that of Lal Behari Day, a Hindu gentleman, in his _Folk-Tales of Bengal_ (London, Macmillan, 1883).
Who acts: Bengal · What happens: be, tell · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Bengal), 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 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 collection | det |
| 2 | collection | collection | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 Bengal | case |
| 4 | Bengal | Bengal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 collection | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Lal | cop |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 Lal | mark |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Lal | case |
| 8 | Lal | Lal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 collection | nmod |
| 9 | Behari | Behari | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Lal | flat |
| 10 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Lal | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gentleman | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 gentleman | det |
| 13 | Hindu | hindu | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 gentleman | amod |
| 14 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Lal | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Tales | punct |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 Tales | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 Tales | nmod:poss |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 21 Tales | punct |
| 19 | Folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Tales | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Folk | punct |
| 21 | Tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 gentleman | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Bengal | case |
| 23 | Bengal | Bengal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Tales | nmod |
| 24 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 Lal | punct |
| 25 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 London | punct |
| 26 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Lal | appos |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Macmillan | punct |
| 28 | Macmillan | Macmillan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 London | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 1883 | punct |
| 30 | 1883 | 1883 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 Macmillan | appos |
| 31 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 London | punct |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 collection | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | of Lal | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | tell | Bengal | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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