Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 95
As regards the serious incidents further inquiry is needed.
Who acts: serious incidents · What happens: regard, need · To what, where: serious incidents, further inquiry
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 (serious incidents), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 2 regards | mark |
| 2 | regards | regard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 incidents | det |
| 4 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 incidents | amod |
| 5 | incidents | incident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 regards | obj |
| 6 | further | further | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 inquiry | amod |
| 7 | inquiry | inquiry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 needed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 needed | aux:pass |
| 9 | needed | need | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 incidents | acl:relcl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 regards | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | regard | present | the serious incidents | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent incident=Theme | |||||
| 2 | need | present · passive | the serious incidents not said here | further inquiry | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=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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