Indian Fairy Tales, X. the Soothsayer's Son., sentence 5
I have considerably condensed and modified the somewhat Babu English of the original.
Who acts: I · What happens: condense, modify · To what, where: somewhat
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 condensed | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 condensed | aux |
| 3 | considerably | considerably | ADV | _ | 4 condensed | advmod |
| 4 | condensed | condense | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 modified | cc |
| 6 | modified | modify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 condensed | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 somewhat | det |
| 8 | somewhat | somewhat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 modified | obj |
| 9 | Babu | Babu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 English | compound |
| 10 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 somewhat | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 original | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 original | det |
| 13 | original | original | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 somewhat | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 condensed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | condense | present · perfect | I | considerably property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | modify | participle | I not said here | the somewhat of the original | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent somewhat=Patient |
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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