Indian Fairy Tales, II. Princess Labam., sentence 13
Grateful Animals" and "Gifts by Grateful Animals."
Who acts: Grateful Animals · What happens: gift
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, II. Princess Labam.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grateful Animals), 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 | Grateful | grateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Animals | amod |
| 2 | Animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Gifts | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Animals | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Gifts | cc |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Gifts | punct |
| 6 | Gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 Animals | case |
| 8 | Grateful | grateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Animals | amod |
| 9 | Animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Gifts | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Gifts | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Gifts | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gift | Grateful Animals | nom gift «possession transitive»: by=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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