Indian Fairy Tales, X. the Soothsayer's Son., sentence 14
Matthew Paris tells the story, _sub anno_ (it is an addition of his to Ralph Disset), _Hist.
Who acts: Matthew, story · What happens: tell, be · To what, where: story, addition · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, X. the Soothsayer's Son.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Matthew, story), 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 | Matthew | Matthew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tells | nsubj |
| 2 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Matthew | flat |
| 3 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 story | det |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tells | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 anno | punct |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 anno | punct |
| 8 | sub | sub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 anno | compound |
| 9 | anno | anno | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 story | appos |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 tells | punct |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 addition | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 addition | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 addition | cop |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 addition | det |
| 15 | addition | addition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tells | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Ralph | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 Ralph | nmod:poss |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 Ralph | mark |
| 19 | Ralph | Ralph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 addition | nmod |
| 20 | Disset | Disset | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Ralph | flat |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 19 Ralph | punct |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 _ | punct |
| 23 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Ralph | conj |
| 24 | Hist | Hist | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 _ | flat |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tells | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | Matthew | the story | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | story | a addition | of Matthew's Ralph and _ | 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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