Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 78
With the fairy tale strictly so called--_i.e._, the serious folk-tale of romantic adventure--I am more doubtful.
Who acts: I, romantic adventure · What happens: call, 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 (I, romantic adventure), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 tale | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tale | det |
| 3 | fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tale | amod |
| 4 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 called | obl |
| 5 | strictly | strictly | ADV | _ | 7 called | advmod |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 called | advmod |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 called | punct |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 called | punct |
| 10 | i.e. | i.e. | ADV | _ | 7 called | xcomp |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 i.e. | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tale | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tale | det |
| 14 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tale | amod |
| 15 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tale | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 folk | punct |
| 17 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 i.e. | appos |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 adventure | case |
| 19 | romantic | romantic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 adventure | amod |
| 20 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tale | nmod |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 25 doubtful | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 doubtful | nsubj |
| 23 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 doubtful | cop |
| 24 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 25 doubtful | advmod |
| 25 | doubtful | doubtful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 called | parataxis |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | participle | with the fairy tale; strictly property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | I | doubtful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell | romantic adventure | 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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