Indian Fairy Tales, XXI. the Farmer and the Money-lender 152, sentence 2
THE BOY WHO HAD A MOON ON HIS FOREHEAD AND A STAR ON HIS CHIN 156
Who acts: BOY · What happens: have · To what, where: MOON, FOREHEAD
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. the Farmer and the Money-lender 152. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (BOY), 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 BOY | det |
| 2 | BOY | BOY | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 HAD | nsubj |
| 3 | WHO | WHO | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 BOY | flat |
| 4 | HAD | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 MOON | det |
| 6 | MOON | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 HAD | obj |
| 7 | ON | on | ADP | _ | 9 FOREHEAD | case |
| 8 | HIS | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 FOREHEAD | nmod:poss |
| 9 | FOREHEAD | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 HAD | obl |
| 10 | AND | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 STAR | cc |
| 11 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 STAR | det |
| 12 | STAR | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 FOREHEAD | conj |
| 13 | ON | on | ADP | _ | 15 CHIN | case |
| 14 | HIS | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 CHIN | nmod:poss |
| 15 | CHIN | chin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 HAD | obl |
| 16 | 156 | 156 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 CHIN | flat |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the BOY | a MOON | BOY's FOREHEAD and a STAR | on BOY's CHIN | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moon=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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