Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 99
This is to a certain extent negatived by the fact of the frequent occurrence of the incident in Indian folk-tales (Captain Temple gave a large number of instances in _Wideawake Stories_, pp.
Who acts: This, Captain · What happens: be, negative, give · To what, where: certain extent, Indian folk tales, large number
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 (This, Captain), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 extent | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 extent | cop |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 extent | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 extent | det |
| 5 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 extent | amod |
| 6 | extent | extent | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | negatived | negative | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 extent | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 fact | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fact | det |
| 10 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 negatived | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 occurrence | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 occurrence | det |
| 13 | frequent | frequent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 occurrence | amod |
| 14 | occurrence | occurrence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fact | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 incident | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 incident | det |
| 17 | incident | incident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 occurrence | nmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 tales | case |
| 19 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 tales | amod |
| 20 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tales | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 folk | punct |
| 22 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 negatived | obl |
| 23 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 gave | punct |
| 24 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 gave | nsubj |
| 25 | Temple | Temple | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 gave | nsubj |
| 26 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 tales | acl:relcl |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 number | det |
| 28 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 number | amod |
| 29 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 gave | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 instances | case |
| 31 | instances | instance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 number | nmod |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 Stories | case |
| 33 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 35 Stories | punct |
| 34 | Wideawake | wideawake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 Stories | compound |
| 35 | Stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 instances | nmod |
| 36 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 26 gave | punct |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 pp | punct |
| 38 | pp | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 tales | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 extent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | This | to a certain extent | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | negative | participle | a certain extent not said here | Indian folk tales and pp | by the fact of the frequent occurrence of the incident | tree rules | |||
| 3 | give | past | Captain | a large number of instances in Wideawake Stories | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=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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