Indian Fairy Tales, III. Lambikin., sentence 5
The droll is common throughout the Panjab.
Who acts: droll · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, III. Lambikin.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (droll), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 droll | det |
| 2 | droll | droll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 common | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 common | cop |
| 4 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 7 Panjab | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Panjab | det |
| 7 | Panjab | Panjab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 common | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 common | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the droll | throughout the Panjab | common property | tree rules |
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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