Indian Fairy Tales, XX. the Ass in the Lion's Skin., sentence 17
There can be little doubt that the Ass in the Lion's Skin is from India.
Who acts: little doubt, Skin · What happens: be · To what, where: India
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XX. the Ass in the Lion's Skin.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little doubt, Skin), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 be | expl |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 be | aux |
| 3 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 doubt | amod |
| 5 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 be | nsubj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 India | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Ass | det |
| 8 | Ass | Ass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Skin | nmod:poss |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 Lion | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Lion | det |
| 11 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Ass | nmod |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Ass | case |
| 13 | Skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 India | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 India | cop |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 India | case |
| 16 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 doubt | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 be | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | can | can | little doubt | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the Ass in the Lion's Skin | India | 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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