Indian Fairy Tales, XXIV. Why the Fish Laughed., sentence 5
_--The latter part is the formula of the Clever Lass who guesses riddles.
Who acts: latter part, formula · What happens: be, guess · To what, where: formula, riddles
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 (latter part, formula), 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 | _ | 8 formula | punct |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 formula | punct |
| 3 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 part | det |
| 4 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 part | amod |
| 5 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 formula | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 formula | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 formula | det |
| 8 | formula | formula | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Lass | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Lass | det |
| 11 | Clever | Clever | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Lass | compound |
| 12 | Lass | Lass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 formula | nmod |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 guesses | nsubj |
| 14 | guesses | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 formula | parataxis |
| 15 | riddles | riddle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 guesses | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 formula | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the latter part | the formula | of the Clever Lass | tree rules | |||
| 2 | guess | present | the formula | riddles | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent riddle=Theme |
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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