Indian Fairy Tales, XIV. Lac of Rupees., sentence 4
I have reduced the pieces of advice to three, and curtailed somewhat.
Who acts: I · What happens: reduce, curtail · To what, where: pieces, three
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 (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 | 3 reduced | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 reduced | aux |
| 3 | reduced | reduce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pieces | det |
| 5 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 reduced | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 advice | case |
| 7 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pieces | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 three | case |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 reduced | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 curtailed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 curtailed | cc |
| 12 | curtailed | curtail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reduced | conj |
| 13 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 12 curtailed | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reduced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reduce | present · perfect | I | the pieces of advice | to three goal | vn limit-76 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer piece=Patient to three=Goal | |||
| 2 | curtail | past | I not said here | somewhat 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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