Indian Fairy Tales, XV. the Gold-giving Serpent., sentence 17
_--Benfey has proved most ingeniously and conclusively (_Einl.
Who acts: _ · What happens: prove · To what, where: Einl
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XV. the Gold-giving Serpent.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (_), 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 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 proved | nsubj |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 _ | punct |
| 3 | Benfey | Benfey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 _ | flat |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 proved | aux |
| 5 | proved | prove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 7 ingeniously | advmod |
| 7 | ingeniously | ingeniously | ADV | _ | 5 proved | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 conclusively | cc |
| 9 | conclusively | conclusively | ADV | _ | 7 ingeniously | conj |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 Einl | punct |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 Einl | punct |
| 12 | Einl | Einl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 proved | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 proved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prove | present · perfect | _ | Einl | ingeniously property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent |
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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