Indian Fairy Tales, XXIV. Why the Fish Laughed., sentence 19
Benfey, in an elaborate dissertation ("Die Kluge Dirne," in _Ausland_, 1859, Nos.
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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Benfey | Benfey | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dissertation | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 dissertation | case |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 dissertation | det |
| 5 | elaborate | elaborate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dissertation | amod |
| 6 | dissertation | dissertation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Benfey | appos |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 Kluge | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Kluge | punct |
| 9 | Die | Die | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Kluge | compound |
| 10 | Kluge | Kluge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 dissertation | appos |
| 11 | Dirne | Dirne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Kluge | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Kluge | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Kluge | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 _ | case |
| 15 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Kluge | nmod |
| 16 | Ausland | Ausland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Kluge | flat |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 Kluge | punct |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 1859 | punct |
| 19 | 1859 | 1859 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 Kluge | list |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Nos | punct |
| 21 | Nos | Nos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Kluge | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Benfey | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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