Indian Fairy Tales, XXIV. Why the Fish Laughed., sentence 11
_ The sex test at the end is different from any of those enumerated by Prof.
Who acts: sex test · What happens: be, enumerate · To what, where: any
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXIV. Why the Fish Laughed.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sex test), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 different | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 test | det |
| 3 | sex | sex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 test | compound |
| 4 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 different | nsubj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 end | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 end | det |
| 7 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 test | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 different | cop |
| 9 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 any | case |
| 11 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 different | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 those | case |
| 13 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 any | conj |
| 14 | enumerated | enumerate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 those | acl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 Prof | case |
| 16 | Prof | Prof | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 enumerated | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 different | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the sex test at the end | any | different property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | enumerate | participle | by Prof | 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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