Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 77
He has certainly made out a good case for tracing all European drolls, or comic folk-tales, from the East.
Who acts: Mr, good case · What happens: make out, trace · To what, where: good case, European drolls, East
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 (Mr, good case), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7128:2446): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
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 made | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux |
| 3 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 4 made | advmod |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 made | compound:prt |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 case | det |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 case | amod |
| 8 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 tracing | mark |
| 10 | tracing | trace | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 case | acl |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 drolls | det |
| 12 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 drolls | amod |
| 13 | drolls | droll | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 tracing | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 tales | punct |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 tales | cc |
| 16 | comic | comic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 tales | amod |
| 17 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tales | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 folk | punct |
| 19 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 drolls | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 East | punct |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 East | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 East | det |
| 23 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 tracing | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make out | present · perfect | Mr | a good case | certainly property | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer case=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | trace | gerund | a good case not said here | all European drolls or comic folk tales | the East | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent droll=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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