Indian Fairy Tales, IV. Punchkin., sentence 15
This Chinese ball arrangement is found in the Deccan ("Punchkin"); in Bengal (Day, _Folk-Tales of Bengal_); in Russia (Ralston, p. 103 _seq.
Who acts: Bengal · What happens: find, tell · To what, where: ball arrangement, Deccan · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IV. Punchkin.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bengal), 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 | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 arrangement | det |
| 2 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ball | amod |
| 3 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arrangement | compound |
| 4 | arrangement | arrangement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 found | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 found | aux:pass |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Deccan | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Deccan | det |
| 9 | Deccan | Deccan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 found | obl |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 Punchkin | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Punchkin | punct |
| 12 | Punchkin | Punchkin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Deccan | appos |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Punchkin | punct |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 Punchkin | punct |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 Bengal | punct |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 Bengal | case |
| 17 | Bengal | Bengal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 found | parataxis |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 Day | punct |
| 19 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Bengal | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Tales | punct |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 24 Tales | punct |
| 22 | Folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Tales | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Folk | punct |
| 24 | Tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 Bengal | appos |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Bengal | case |
| 26 | Bengal | Bengal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Tales | nmod |
| 27 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 24 Tales | punct |
| 28 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 24 Tales | punct |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 seq | punct |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 Russia | case |
| 31 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 seq | nmod:poss |
| 32 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 33 Ralston | punct |
| 33 | Ralston | Ralston | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Russia | appos |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 p. | punct |
| 35 | p. | P. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Ralston | conj |
| 36 | 103 | 103 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 35 p. | flat |
| 37 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 38 seq | punct |
| 38 | seq | seq | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 found | parataxis |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present · passive | this ball arrangement | the Deccan | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | tell | Bengal | 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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