Indian Fairy Tales, XXI. the Farmer and the Money-lender., sentence 9
Mr. Kipling has a very similar tale in his _Life's Handicap_.
Who acts: Kipling · What happens: have · To what, where: similar tale, Handicap
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. the Farmer and the Money-lender.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kipling), 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 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Kipling | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Kipling | Kipling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tale | det |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 similar | advmod |
| 6 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tale | amod |
| 7 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Handicap | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 Handicap | nmod:poss |
| 10 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Life | compound |
| 11 | Life | Life | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Handicap | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Life | case |
| 13 | Handicap | Handicap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 tale | nmod |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 Handicap | punct |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Kipling Mr. | a similar tale | Kipling's Handicap | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=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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