Indian Fairy Tales, VIII. Loving Laili., sentence 17
238-9, who suggests that the red hair is something solar, and derived from myths of the solar hero.
Who acts: red hair · What happens: suggest, be, derive · To what, where: something, myths
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VIII. Loving Laili.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (red hair), 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 | 238-9 | 238-9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 suggests | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 suggests | nsubj |
| 4 | suggests | suggest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 238-9 | parataxis |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 something | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hair | det |
| 7 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hair | amod |
| 8 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 something | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 something | cop |
| 10 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 suggests | obj |
| 11 | solar | solar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 something | amod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 derived | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 derived | cc |
| 14 | derived | derive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 suggests | conj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 myths | case |
| 16 | myths | myth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 derived | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 hero | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hero | det |
| 19 | solar | solar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hero | amod |
| 20 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 myths | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 238-9 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suggest speech: suggest | present | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | the red hair | something | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | derive | past | myths of the solar hero | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent from myth=Material |
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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