Indian Fairy Tales, XIV. Lac of Rupees., sentence 12

The piece of advice was originally a charm, in which a youth was to say to himself, "Why are you busy?

Who acts: piece, youth, doubt · What happens: be · To what, where: charm, doubt · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIV. Lac of Rupees.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (piece, youth, doubt), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 piece	det
2	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 charm	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 advice	case
4	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 piece	nmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 charm	cop
6	originally	originally	ADV	_	8 charm	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 charm	det
8	charm	charm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 say	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 which	case
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 say	obl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 youth	det
13	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 say	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 say	cop
15	to	to	PART	_	16 say	mark
16	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 charm	parataxis
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 himself	case
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 say	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 busy	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 busy	punct
21	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	24 busy	advmod
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 busy	cop
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 busy	nsubj
24	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 say	ccomp
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 charm	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the piece of advice	a charm			originally property	tree rules
2	be speech: assert	past	a youth		doubt	a charm	say property	tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	doubt				busy property	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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