Indian Fairy Tales, VI. the Magic Fiddle., sentence 13
There is a singing bone in Steel-Temple's _Wideawake Stories_, pp.
Who acts: singing bone · What happens: be, sing
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VI. the Magic Fiddle.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (singing bone), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bone | det |
| 4 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 bone | amod |
| 5 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Steel | case |
| 7 | Steel | Steel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 bone | nmod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Temple | punct |
| 9 | Temple | Temple | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Steel | conj |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Temple | case |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 Stories | punct |
| 12 | Wideawake | wideawake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Stories | compound |
| 13 | Stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bone | conj |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 Stories | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 pp | punct |
| 16 | pp | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Stories | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | a singing bone in Steel and Temple and Wideawake Stories and pp | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | gerund | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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