Indian Fairy Tales, IV. Punchkin., sentence 25
It is impossible to imagine the human mind independently imagining such bizarre convolutions.
What happens: be, imagine · To what, where: human mind, such bizarre convolutions
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: 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 impossible | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 impossible | cop |
| 3 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 imagine | mark |
| 5 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 impossible | csubj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mind | det |
| 7 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 mind | amod |
| 8 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 imagine | obj |
| 9 | independently | independently | ADV | _ | 10 imagining | advmod |
| 10 | imagining | imagine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 imagine | advcl |
| 11 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 convolutions | amod |
| 12 | bizarre | bizarre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 convolutions | compound |
| 13 | convolutions | convolution | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 imagining | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 impossible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | impossible property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | imagine | to-infinitive | the human mind | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot mind=Theme | |||||
| 3 | imagine | gerund | such bizarre convolutions | independently property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot convolution=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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